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Railroad Stories: The Way It Was The story of Squaw Valley

The story of Squaw Valley

By C. J. Marsh Jr. | July 30, 2020

A Southern Railway engineer’s indiscretion led to a novel place name

F7A 4219 and F3A 6709 bracket three B units on an Asheville-bound Southern Railway freight along the French Broad River in April 1966.

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