![]() ![]() ![]() “They suffer as if they were fighting a war,” said Congressman Henry Cabot Lodge, in 1892. Railway workers spent long shifts maintaining tracks, coupling and decoupling cars with swift and practiced moves, or unloading goods in train yards, and throughout all those exhausting hours one unlucky moment could cost them a hand, or a leg, or more. To work for a 19th-century railroad, it helped to be fearless, tireless, and a little reckless. Courtesy Mike Esbester and Railway Work, Life and Death Railway company publications warned about hazards at work. ![]()
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