MS Moments 212 - Ray Ward - Train Derailments

Published: Dec. 16, 2009, 4:14 p.m.

By the 1960s, railroads had lost much of their freight hauling business to trucks. Ray Ward of McComb recalls how track maintenance suffered as a result. As a car man, Ward\u2019s job was to re-track derailed cars and locomotives. He explains how he was able to do this with a crew of only two men.