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“Military railroad operations in northern Virginia: men standing on railroad track,” Andrew J. Russell, photographer.

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Centreville resident Debbie Robison hasn’t chopped a cord of lumber or laid a railroad trestle. But for more than a year she’s done hard labor at the National Archives and Records Administration, researching Civil War-era railroad workers in Northern Virginia.

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