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emergence of private-sector careers for both blue-collar workers and white-collar workers. Railroading became a lifetime career for young men; women were almost...

It was released in China on December 23, 2016. The film is about a railroad worker who leads a team of freedom fighters to oppose the Japanese during...

Circus in the early 1900s. Piñón was born in 1889. He worked as a railroad worker from Texas, Piñón was discovered by a sideshow promoter whose attention...

and other cities, workers burned down and destroyed both physical facilities and the rolling stock of the railroads—engines and railroad cars. Some locals...

Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America (BRS) – The Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen was founded in 1908 to represent workers charged with physical...

Railroad Workers United (RWU) formerly known as Railroad Operating Crafts United is a cross-union rail workers’ reform group that was started as a result...

gambling. He drifted through several manual labor jobs, working as a railroad worker, mechanic, and ambulance driver while simultaneously continuing to...

Coventry based at Coventry Cathedral, UK John J. Irvine (1852–?), railroad worker, engineer, and politician in Chattanooga, Tennessee Jack Irvine (John...

Lamarr persuades dim-witted Le Petomane to appoint Bart, a black railroad worker about to be executed for assaulting Taggart. A black sheriff, Lamarr...

fame. Originally from Meridian, Mississippi, Rodgers was the son of railroad worker Aaron Rodgers. During his early childhood, the family moved according...

Within four days, 125,000 workers on twenty-nine railroads had "walked off" the job rather than handle Pullman cars. The railroads coordinated their response...

Jan Grzebski (1942 – 12 December 2008) was a Polish railroad worker who fell into a coma in 1988 and woke up in 2007. He actually stayed in a coma for...

looking Chinese workers, some contemptuously called "Crocker's pets", were suitable for the heavy physical work. For the Central Pacific Railroad, hiring Chinese...

A traquero is a railroad track worker, or "section hand", especially a Mexican or Mexican American railroad track worker ("gandy dancer" in American English...

are reduced and fewer workers are employed for a given level of traffic. The result is an often substantial decrease in railroad operating ratios and other...

a U.S. Government-sponsored program that imported Mexican farm and railroad workers into the United States between the years 1942 and 1964. The program...

Congress added railroad worker safety laws throughout the 20th century.: 16–25  Significant among this legislation is the Federal Railroad Safety Act of...

term used for early railroad workers in the United States, more formally referred to as section hands, who laid and maintained railroad tracks in the years...

Hardy" is a traditional American folk song based on the life of a railroad worker living in McDowell County, West Virginia in the Spring of 1893. The...

transcontinental railroad (known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a 1,911-mile (3,075 km) continuous railroad line built...