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In the old days certain passenger trains with a working baggage car for checked baggage, there was a train baggageman. those jobs went to the brakemen's board. On the Milwaukee, Amtrak number 9, the Hiawatha would have an engineer, fireman, train baggageman, head brakeman, conductor and flagman. On the IC, for example, the head brakeman on a passenger job could also be the baggageman. <br />In Indiana in the old days freight trains with more than 69 cars had to have a third brakeman. The Monon had a type of "head end caboose" that looked like a freight version of a baggage car for that purpose. <br />Mitch
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