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Harvesting pumpkins. These pumpkins are purported to be high in iron because of a high brake dust content in the soil from trains stopping at the nearby station. The stake truck is a 1941 Jimmy (GMC).

The railroad adapted a program pioneered by the Long Island railroad and Henry Ford of allowing farming on railroad property.

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