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Date: 09/26/16 07:53
Section gang at top of little flint hill east of Burden Kansas.
Author: flynn

Picture 1 is from the website,
 
http://xn--e1akkdfpb6a.xn--p1ai/3-foto/railroad-workers.php
 
There was no information on the picture 1 on this website. 
 
I did a Google photo identification search on picture 1 and found a second website with information on the picture 1. 
 
http://www.eccchistory.org/EarlyBurden.htm
 
Picture 1, “Section gang at top of little flint hill east of Burden Kansas. 1908.  George W. LaForge Forman.”  
 

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Date: 09/26/16 07:55
Re: Section gang at top of little flint hill east of Burden Kansa
Author: flynn

The Google photo identification search gave Best guess for this image: track.  I changed the best guess to railroad men and from the visually similar images I copied three pictures
 
Picture 2 is from the website,
 
https://appalachianprojects.as.uky.edu/coal-camps/cannel-city 
 
Picture 2, Ohio and Kentucky Railroad workers at Cannel City, Kentucky. 
 

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Date: 09/26/16 07:58
Re: Section gang at top of little flint hill east of Burden Kansa
Author: flynn

Picture 3 is from the website,
 
http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/fallston.html 
 
Picture 3, “Victorian photograph of men working on a railroad in Fallston, Maryland.” 
 

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Date: 09/26/16 08:00
Re: Section gang at top of little flint hill east of Burden Kansa
Author: flynn

Picture 4 is from the website,
 
http://www.chattoogahistory.org/photo-archive/?location=menlo&subject 
 
Picture 4, “Maintenance men, TAG railroad ,near Menlo.”
 

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Date: 09/27/16 06:48
Re: Section gang at top of little flint hill east of Burden Kansa
Author: ntharalson

I'm wondering if the first photo is near Grand Summit which is east of Burden a ways.

Nick Tharalson,
Marion, IA

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Date: 09/29/16 00:32
Re: Section gang at top of little flint hill east of Burden Kansa
Author: Evan_Werkema

The Santa Fe line crossed Grouse Creek east of Burden, KS, and topo maps show the rails climbing about 160 feet in two miles getting up out of the flood plain to where the town is.  The "summit" is about where the tracks and US-160 come back together, and it looks like there might be a shallow cut there still:

https://goo.gl/maps/3TWvWpiQFFt

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