moving circa 1920

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The bane of railroad officials was having to move for da good old Comp'ny.  

One of the pains attendant to that ritual was having the family's goods moved in a boxcar.

The station agents at both ends of the move would arrange for section hands to do the loading/unloading and possibly the draying.

But the goods, furniture and other chattels usually arrived in splinters, and there was no recourse against the railroad.  So much for "Precision Transportation," huh?

I believe this marvellous process was supplanted by the moving van in the mid- to late-1950s.

-- abram burnett
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