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Buried trolley tracks salvaged to aid war program. Recovering buried trolley track to provide scrap for the war effort is an operation handily performed by such devices as the one shown here. Pulled by a tractor, the apparatus disengages the track from the pavement and slides it back on the iron saw
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Credit lineBuried trolley tracks salvaged to aid war program. Recovering buried trolley track to provide scrap for the war effort is an operation handily performed by such devices as the one shown here. Pulled b. 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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