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Weekend Before a Strike

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This is the shop complex at Pittsburg Kansas in early 1983. The following Monday will find picketers lined up outside it's gates, a strike by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. The strike lasted for three days and was nationwide.

This site, like many others, is now gone although the building still survives. The shop duties being either sent to Shreveport or to a contract shop off property altogether.
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