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Railroads played
a huge role in American history. This was even truer in
the settlement of the west, where entire communities were
established as "railroad towns". In some of
these, nearly every family was engaged in some aspect
of railroading, or in supplying the families who were.
As lasting as the impression of the railroads has been,
however, one crucial portion of the legacy has been
fading from site. The stories of the men and women who
built and ran the mighty iron roads have been all but
forgotten. Records have been casually shredded during
mergers, stored away unavailable to the descendants,
allowed to languish in storehouses until illegible,
or buried with the men and women themselves. To the
founders of this Society, this was simply appalling.
And so the work began. The Railroad Genealogical Society
was established and dedicated to the task of locating,
compiling and preserving every record pertaining to
the employees of America's historic railroads.
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