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… Michoacan, Jalisco, and San Luis Potosí. Needing a labor force to construct and improve their lines, the railroads openly recruited Mexican workers, promising transportation and housing. The facilities provided, however, were often little more than converted boxcars or shacks constructed out of leftover materials trackside. A typical boxcar "home" had only …
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