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This is our great country. The
land we live in the land.

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We're so proud of our own
United States of America.

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It's a big country this land of
ours a country abroad plains

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and rolling prairie the vast forests

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and fertile field rivers

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and lakes high mountains little villages

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and great cities. No wonder
we're so proud of America.

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There's us to be proud of

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and here's one of the most wonderful
things about this vast country of ours.

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No matter where we want to travel
the mines of raw materials

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and manufactured goods.

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If you ever stop to think of a
really important railroad car.

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Have you ever thought of what it takes
for the millions of people in this great

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country to be able to travel from one
end of the land to the other with speed

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safety comes first and at no cost.

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Have you ever marveled
at the iron ore and coal

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and hundreds of other raw materials

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that move continuously to the
nation's widespread factories

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and now thousands of different finished
products are delivered from where they are

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made to where they are needed
in all parts of the country.

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Have you ever wondered how the foods we
eat are always being delivered from the

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farms to our markets and how they arrive
fresh as the day they were picked.

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Well the answers to those questions
make up one of the most fascinating

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and important stories in the
history of our country.

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The story of the American railroad
in order to tell you that story.

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We're going to visit the railroad yard.

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We're going into the railroad
stations and out along the track in

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that way you will get a better idea of
what the nation's railroad system is like

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and the big important job trains are
always doing in the next time you're

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on a train or the next time you see a
train speeding off into the distance.

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You'll understand how much we all depend
on railroad much in this land of ours.

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The most wonderful

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and prosperous nation in the world

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when our country was young

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and much smaller than it is today traveling
was slow uncomfortable and dangerous

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and so people didn't travel very much.

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Then just a little more than a hundred
years ago came the once in a young country

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needed to grow into an important
nation adequate protection

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that transportation came in the form of
railroads those early trains were funny

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little affairs

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when compared with the big trains we see
rolling today they had a lot to do with

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opening up developing vast new
territories which later became state.

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You could say that America

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and her railroad grew up together
as the railroads pushed ahead

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settlers from. Farms were cleared

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and crops planted mines were opened and
the railroads began moving the more

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and the coal the mills

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and factories villages which sprang
up around the railroad stations grew

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when prospered into big
important cities throughout the

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length and breadth of the
land trains come and go day

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and night in all kinds of weather
carrying millions of people

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and millions of tons of rain because we
don't always see the trains which serve us.

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Maybe everyone doesn't realize how essential
railroads are to our everyday living.

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Everyone likes to travel. Suppose we see
what happens when we take a train trip.

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We'll go along with these
two friends of ours.

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Carol and Jimmy

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that is if Jimmy can ever
get Carol suitcase just

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in real life their parents would
probably go along with them

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but for those pictures Suppose we let
Carol and Jimmy travel by themselves. OK.

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There they go in the taxicab

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that will take them to the
railroad then you know almost

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every town has a railroad station.

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Some are larger than others but
all railroad station large

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or small are very interesting
place for example at

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most railroad stations.

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You will usually find the Railway
Express you will see people checking

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and sorting packages to make certain
that they will be put aboard the train.

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Which will take them to their
destinations without delay.

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And remember they will handle
almost anything including your dog

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in the yards of many railroad
stations cars are cleaned inside

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and out to put them into tip top condition
for the passengers who will soon be

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getting aboard in another part of the yard

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dining cars are stocked with fresh
vegetables meat milk and all the other foods

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that will be needed for the
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when the train is on its way nearby.

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There is usually an engine house where
locomotives are brought for cleaning

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and servicing maybe you
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locomotives are turn around.

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Well let's watch

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and see how easy it is a locomotive
is run on to the turntable on

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goes the power at around goes the
locomotive as easy as you please.

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We better not forget Carol

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and Jimmy they are arriving
in plenty of time to

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check their baggage

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and buy their tickets before their train
is scheduled to leave me the taxi driver

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to me

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and get a check from the Red Cab
For each one of your handbag.

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The next stop is to buy tickets.

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Now let's see Jimmy and Carol
are going to visit there

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and uncle at a town about a thousand miles
away. They will be coming back by train.

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So they will buy round trip tickets.

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Buying round trip tickets they will be
saving money to the ticket cleric's stamps

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each ticket with the date on
which the ticket is purchased

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and the date on which the ticket
is used so far so good as Carol

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and Jimmy are going to sleep on the train
they will have to have sleeping car

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tickets to. That's right.
You're all set now.

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Say you better not take too much time paying
for your tickets Jimmy they cause here

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comes your train.

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There's nothing quite as exciting as a
railroad station the train from the time the

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train arrives until it is ready to leave
again it's usually only a matter of a few

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minutes. But during that short
period many things happen.

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Trunks luggage

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and other such items are loaded into the
baggage car near the head end of the train

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the United States mail is put aboard the
railway mail car windows are clean by a

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mechanical watch or friends

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and relatives bit each
other last minute goodbye

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passengers like Carolyn
Jimmy board their cars

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and are shown their space
in the car by the porter.

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It's just about time now for the
train to pull out all the train

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conductor signals to the
locomotive engineer in a matter of

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DR most without

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ever trained gathers momentum.

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Before long. It is out in the open country
again running along at top speed.

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It's really great fun traveling on trains
you can sit for hours just watching the

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scenery

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and the rushes by it's almost
like a travel motion picture.

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One of the most interesting motion
pictures you could possibly imagine.

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Here's a conductor take its plays

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most passenger trains carry the United
States mail for the railroad postal car is

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the very backbone of our country's mail
server these men are railway postal

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clerk just like the clerks in
the post office at home except

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that here they work while the train speeds
along watch them sort the mail getting

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it ready for delivery by the time the
train reaches the proper station

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one of the most popular cars on almost any
bad new train is the dining car a real

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restaurant on we table for
to right this way please.

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Now Carolyn Jimmy what do you think
you'd like doing what is showing almost

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anything you can think up ahead of you
need any help the steward is only too

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pleased to offer some suggestions.

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Here's an interesting part of the train.

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Most people never get a chance
to see that dining car kitchen.

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No space is wasted and everything
is speaking in Spanish

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that food really looks good enough to eat.

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Doesn't it look as though Carolyn
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cream

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and says Oh that check. That's all right.

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My good man keep the change

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modern train for my new home
because dependable comfortable

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and safe transportation.

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They have stations air conditioned lounge

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and Dome cars where passengers
can relax and read or sit

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and talk with fellow passengers there
are many types of accommodations on

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modern train. There are single
rooms like this call room

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and there are bedroom

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apartments

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and more spacious drawing rooms all with
the latest conveniences rooms which make

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up into sleeping rooms at night.

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That's right Carol always use
a ladder to get into an upper

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getting pretty late so goodnight
Jimmy and Carol and plan.

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Undreamed always remember

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that you're traveling the safest and
soundest way there is to travel

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when you travel by train.

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We've been talking mostly about passenger
trains and how many of you know

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that about half of the trains in the
country carry no passengers at all.

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That's right. They carry freight things
that are so important in our daily lives.

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The food we eat the
clothes we wear the fuel

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we burn almost everything we use
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of rain on the fertile fields of the north

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and west are grown the millions of bushels
of grains which are so much a part of

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our everyday diet the railroad's movies
grains to huge storyteller maters

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more on to the mill then later on

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when the grains have been ground the
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the cities

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and towns to be baked into the bread which
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neighborhood grocery store moving cattle

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and sheep from the great ranges of the
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The cattle are first rounded up in their
little special railroad cars to lose

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some time alone distances to the packing
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meats are moved again to
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Eventually through the help of railroads.

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We have meat on our
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and vegetables things known as perishables
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kept cool with ice or with machinery

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that works like your refrigerator at home
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being moved.

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Sometimes as far as three
thousand miles railroads are

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dependent upon to move the nation's raw
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into finished product iron ore
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and the great ranges of Minnesota are
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made into iron

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and steel the railroads also buy millions
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year for their cars and locomotive tracks

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and bridges coal

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is one of the most important things carry
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moved every year to keep power plants

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and factories working railroads are
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and cities to keep homes
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and other buildings heated during
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large quantities of coal every
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and for other introduced
railroad scary forest products

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logs and potpourri from the forests to
the mills and they carry the lumber

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and the paper and other
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or wood pulp to the places where
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Dixie is move.

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and the southeast where it is
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and thousands of other
important items boilers

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moved by the railroads in huge
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and use a large part of all the fuel
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railroad tracks go right down to
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that freight cars deliver the
products of five cars mines

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and mills to the ships that will sail
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and so

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that things from other countries can be
loaded directly into railroad cars for

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delivery all over America.

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When you stop to think about it you realize
what a great big job the railroads are

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always doing.

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Why they are the nation's most important
form of transportation always on

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the move day and night
delivering all the many things

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that America needs welfare

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and properly clothes and here is something

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that many of you may not have realized
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that is

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and they pay enough in school taxes alone
to provide an education for hundreds of

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thousands of school
children every year more

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time we were getting magnet Carolyn Jimmy
Bill think we've forgotten all about.

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Here's their train coming in.
They're stationed right on time.

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It looks like they're at a local
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Well the train is ready
to start moving again.

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There she goes falling out of the station
gathering speed carrying other passengers

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Express and baggage to other stations.

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We certainly hope you had a nice time
coming along on this trip with this man

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that you learned something about railroad

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that perhaps you didn't know before we all
be Genevra one of you will be able to

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take a trip on a train very soon perhaps
you'll want to visit a big city.

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Maybe you'll prefer to take a
vacation trip to the wide open spaces

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or maybe some of you will
prefer the seashore.

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But no matter where you might want to go.

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Remember there are always
trains to take you and

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when you go you will see how big an hour
wonderful your own United States of

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America really is

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real. Roads are an
important part of America.

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They play an important part in our daily
lives carrying millions of tons of freight

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and millions of people
every day of the year.

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That's one of the wonderful things about
this country here people can go where they

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want to go when they want.

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Yes this is indeed a great land
a land of opportunity land made

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great by the efforts of individuals
individual efforts which have raised ours to

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the world's higher standard
of living here in America a

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person can worship God if he chooses
he can go to the church of his choice.

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This is a land where a
person can go to school

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and be educated to the
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and desire from kindergarten to universities
as fine as are to be found anywhere in

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the world.

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This is a great country America a country
not the people by the people for the ME

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a country whose flying we are always
proud to honor and right principles

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and freedoms we are always proud
to uphold it was upon these

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principles and freedoms that this
nation was built on the same principles

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and freedoms tells us by America's youth.

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I used educated in her history

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and traditions are the greatest hope the
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the greatest of country our country
the United States of America.