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Whitetop Mountain, the highest passenger station east of the Rockies, a journey of steep grades, dangerous curves, more than one-hundred bridges, hand-built wooden bridges, needed to cross rivers and span deep gorges. Resources of Appalachia coal and iron and lumber were brought to market. The people put to work—mining, milling, logging . working for the land companies, the absentee landlord ... ................
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