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Train Towns

In Mexico, a way of life is vanishing for some of that country's railworkers and their families --converting boxcars into trailer-homes. It's a system once supported by the Mexican government before privatization, and now one of the few remaining encampments still survives north of Mexico City. NPR's Gerry Hadden reports.

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