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- Railroad operations
here in Greenfield Village
at The Henry Ford includes
a two-and-a-half mile track,
a roundhouse,
(train signal sounding)
and a signal system for the railroad,
all of which serves over
300 thousand riders a year.
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Wintertime in railroad operation
is typically filled with
preventative maintenance
of the locomotives, as
well as our rolling stock
and large-scale projects
that need to be done.
Things like wiping the engines,
doing, like, significant deep cleaning,
polishing of brass parts and whistles,
taking apart valves, cleaning them up,
repairing steam leaks,
inspecting parts to ensure
that they are still usable.
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Parts of the engine are very specific.
We can't just go to any
store and purchase parts.
Parts must be made
specifically for the engine
from raw material.
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To have a fully functional
railroad operation,
it takes an entire team.
We have engineers, firemen, mechanics,
all with specific skills
that are part of the whole.
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