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On the second day of the New Year in 1908, thirty year-old Peter
though he was locked in a fight for his life Pete, an even tougher
Stryker, a popular conductor on the W&N, was walking along the
railroad hand than his younger brother, couldn9t help being imtops of a slow moving train when he slipped and fell headfirst
pressed when he heard of Jim9s heroic feat. He reportedly looked
onto the tracks between the freight cars, two of which rolled over
up with a grim smile and said proudly through his clenched teeth,
him before the train stopped. In a cruel but fortunate twist of
