MS Moments 212 - Ray Ward - Train Derailments - a podcast by USM Center for Oral History

from 2009-12-16T16:14

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By the 1960s, railroads had lost much of their freight hauling business to trucks. Ray Ward of McComb recalls how track maintenance suffered as a result. As a car man, Ward’s job was to re-track derailed cars and locomotives. He explains how he was able to do this with a crew of only two men.