Introduction

Running trades engineer and conductor compare watches prior to departure - Date? Photographer?

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This article, "Canadian Railways and Unions in the Running Trades 1865-1914" by J.H. Tuck, was drawn from Industrial Relations, Vol. 36, No. 1 (1981), pages 106-131, by the Department of Industrial Relations University of Laval.
 
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BACKGROUND:  The interior of a Canadian Pacific Railway caboose located in western Canada - Circa 1903 H.W. Gleason - Glenbow Library and Archives.