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I just processed and added this image to my gallery, and looking at the employees visible in the photo, I got to wondering about a couple of things. Might be pretty dumb questions here for somebody who's been around railroads all his life, but I realized I just didn't know. I notice one visible trainman for each car. I assume this would be a conductor and 2 brakemen. Would there always be the same number of trainmen on every commuter train, regardless of size (even with much larger trains during rush hour)? Was there a separate class of employee that would have been ticket collectors, or would those have always been a conductor/brakeman? What exactly was the purpose of the baggage/coach and its employee (I assume the guy with his head stuck out the door is an employee)? Mail? Newspapers? I did notice a newspaper truck backed up to the station in another photo. Larry Sallee __._,_.___
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