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| Tracks going beside a loading dock.
Notice that the track is laid on ties that are laid on the bare
ground. Also notice the ditching beside the track. Keeping the
ditches clear and dug to the correct depth was a major job that the
labor-short Confederate railroads mostly ignored during 1863 and
1864, leading to many washouts of the soil under the track and then
to breaking of the line and, perhaps, derailment. |
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