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R is for Railroads: Streetcar Strikes, Pearl L. Bergoff, and The San Antonio Ghost Tracks
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Choo! Choo! Karen drags us as far from the tracks as she can as she covers the Trolley Strikes and Strikebreaker Pearl Bergoff. Casey covers the urban legends around the San Antonio Ghost Tracks.
Artwork: Jovana Stekovic
Logo: nydaaa
Music: Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod
Karen's Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport
https://kenyonreview.org/2015/03/walt-whitman-run-down-by-a-train/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2021/06/15/amtrak-train-map-expansion-us/
http://www.heritagetrolley.org/artcileBringBackStreetcars4.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressed_Steel_Car_strike_of_1909
www.jstor.org/stable/30031746. Accessed 21 June 2021.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Bergoff
(1909, August 25). Riot Fatal to Five, pp. 9–12. https://www.newspapers.com/image/36828487/?terms=pressed%20steel%20car%20company%20death&match=1.
Strikebreaking Magnates Get Ready to Pick Up Big Money in the Coal Strike. (1912, March 28). The Day Book, pp. 13–15. https://www.newspapers.com/image/76564913.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/byrnes-act
Labor: In New Haven. (1937, November 29). TIME. http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,758449-1,00.html.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington_Rand_strike_of_1936%E2%80%9337#Use_of_strikebreakers
Casey's Sources:
https://ghostcitytours.com/san-antonio/haunted-places/haunted-railroad-tracks
https://www.mysanantonio.com/lifestyle/article/San-Antonio-s-ghost-tracks-an-urban-legend-12315211.php
https://www.ksat.com/news/2018/10/20/san-antonios-ghost-tracks-will-be-history-after-next-week/
https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/24-killed-in-horrific-bus-train-crash-that-inspired-ghost-tracks-legend-in-san-antonio
https://www.up.com/index.htm
Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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