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Re: Great Depression and railroad jobs? Huh?
Author: Alfred Doten
Date: 09-26-2014 - 22:43

My Dad saw the Depression coming and junked the Railway Mail Service for a permanent USPO clerk job in October, 1929. My father-in-law was hired off the farm in Idaho in 1930 by Western Pacific as a compressor operator and was immediately sent to Keddie to work on the High Line construction. Both had 41 year careers that began when the World fell apart. Both were high school grads, but luck probably had as much to do with it as anything.
ARD

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  Great Depression and railroads Don B 09-25-2014 - 21:32
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  Re: Great Depression and railroads ex-BN 09-25-2014 - 23:27
  Re: Great Depression and railroad jobs? Huh? BOB2 09-26-2014 - 07:22
  Re: Great Depression and railroad jobs? Huh? SP Marketing 09-26-2014 - 09:50
  Re: Great Depression and railroad jobs? Huh? Mike 09-26-2014 - 11:14
  Re: Great Depression and railroad jobs? Huh? BOB2 09-26-2014 - 12:41
  Re: Great Depression and railroad jobs? Huh? Chimera 09-26-2014 - 19:54
  Re: Great Depression and railroad jobs? Huh? up833 09-26-2014 - 20:06
  Re: Great Depression and railroad jobs? Huh? Alfred Doten 09-26-2014 - 22:43
  Re: Great Depression and railroad jobs? Huh? Earl Pitts 09-27-2014 - 09:52
  Re: Great Depression and railroads SLOCONDR 09-27-2014 - 19:18
  Re: Great Depression and railroads Craig Tambo 09-27-2014 - 22:42


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