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Speaking of how bad the UP is... An African American man who lives in my building told that in the 1960s when his uncle was a cook on their passenger trains, he was let go one day out of the blue. Let go after 29 years of service which happened to be 1 year short of him qualifying to claim his pension. It turned out that UP was doing this to many of their african american employees and a class action lawsuit was filed which the plaintiffs won (thank god). They all recieved the pensions they were promised as part of the settlement. I don't think there are any other railroads that are blameless in regards to racism, but I thought this was an especially low thing to do. I'm an Oregon boy and maybe because of it I wish SP had swallowed up UP when they had the chance in the 1960s. [2c]
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