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Weaver Dial rode his first freight train in 1929 when he was 12 years of age with his friend Emmy. They left Seattle Washington at 11:00 and arrived at Auburn at 2:00. At this point, they left a eight hour trip over the Cascade Mountains. They rode in a cattle car that was filled with wooden blocks pulled by a steam engine that rolled coal. They traveled through a tunnel that trapped all the smoke in the cars that made the boys cough.
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