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Buried trolley tracks salvaged to aid war program. Removing abandoned trolley tracks to provide much needed scrap for Uncle Sam. Here, in Asheville, North Carolina, a local inventor demonstrates his "railjerk" for doing the trick. He claims his device, employing three men, can pry loose a mile of tr
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Credit lineBuried trolley tracks salvaged to aid war program. Removing abandoned trolley tracks to provide much needed scrap for Uncle Sam. Here, in Asheville, North Carolina, a local inventor demonstrates his ". 1942-01-01. United States. Office Of War Information. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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