Railway
use ramped up even before the US entered World War II, because the war
in Europe was interrupting shipping lanes, so more cargo went by train.
Then wartime gasoline rationing caused an uptick in passengers using
trains. Meanwhile, men were being shipped off to fight, so women were
hired to work on the railroads. By the beginning of 1944, there were
some 116,000 women railroad workers. Some of these women were
photographed in 1943 by Office of War Information photographer Jack
Delano. See a collection of images of
women railroad workers at Mashable.
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