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COLD SPRING SHOPS.

Observations on economics, the academy, the wider world, and things that run on rails.

18.12.20

BABY, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE.

One week until Christmas.


Enjoy.
Posted by Stephen Karlson at 15:00
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"Cold Spring Shops" was the name of the primary repair and car building facility of The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company ... builders of trolley dining cars and the Christmas parade train ... perhaps I can be that creative too.

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