The Third Rail
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The next week was truly the worst week with C.T.A. Setting at
The next day myself and another motorman visited him in the hospital. He said his pelvis had been smashed like someone had took a hammer and smashed it. He was in a bad way. We told him not to talk to the company or union until he talked to a lawyer. Even though he was a motorman, he was in our click. The next day at work we collected over seven hundred dollars. Years later I saw him in a service station. He was walking with a cane. His big natural was pure white. He said he was living in
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This book describes 25 years with the Chicago Transit Authority. I started at Howard Terminal on the north side. This terminal is the largest and most complicated that the C.T.A. has. The train I started on was the 4,000 Series or wooden cars. My everyday duties as conductor, mortman, switchman, flagman, towerman, and 19 years as a Rapid Transit Rail Supervisor. This book gives the reader a window into the Rapid Transit Service.
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I started writing on
I have taken writing classes at L.A.U.S.D. I have a Bachelor of Arts in History and Liberal Arts from