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Small-town station ritual

By Angela Cotey | November 5, 2017

| Last updated on August 8, 2025

A baggageman loads express and LCL aboard a combine on a mixed train on the Canadian Pacific (Quebec Central) at Vallee Junction, Quebec, in May 1959.

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