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Mechanicvlle: Always a rail town

Trains part of life for 174 years

Saturday, May 30, 2009

By Kathy Bowen (Contact)
Gazette Reporter

When a new railroad company prepares a high-tech rail yard in southern Saratoga County, it will be building on land that has held tracks for 174 years....

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