The Alaska Railroad was one of the last railroads in North America to use cabooses in regular service and still uses them on some gravel trains.
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In the summer season gravel trains run and trains also serve the large Shell tank farm in Aichstetten-Altmann, which forms part of the German strategic oil reserve.
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Safeworking was by means of Ordinary Train Staff, however it was permissible to operate gravel trains between Richmond and the siding whilst the staff was secured at Kurrajong.
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The location of its plant along the government-owned tracks in Charlestown provides easy access for its gravel trains, through an agreement to use the freight trackage rights kept by Pan Am Railways.
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Other than the Boston gravel train, NHN also serves its own satellite gravel facility in Rochester, New Hampshire, as well as Eastern Propane at the same location and a few other freight customers.
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So eager are people to partake of the romance of history that according to Mark Twain, gravel trains periodically chugged in from Marseilles to refurbish Pere Lachaise cemetery when it was depleted by " memento cabbaging " visitors.
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It is described by Natural England as a key site for the early history of the River Thames as it provides the best known exposure of the " Lower Gravel Train ", a deposit laid down when the Thames flowed through the Vale of St Albans, before it was diverted south to its present course during the Anglian Ice Age around 450, 000 years ago.
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Slaves drove the passenger carrying Omnibus and the wagons, worked in the maintenance shops and mechanics and shopmen, worked in the Depots and office, worked at the Clover Hill and other stations, worked as firemen and train hands on the train, worked as section men and repaired tracks, worked on the gravel train shoveling gravel and bringing materials and chopped wood to provide the fuel for the trains.
