he was tied in with the american railway union. he managed to get sympathetic rail workers in many places to sympathetically strike with the pullman company strikers. but where it was most prevalent was here in sacramento. this was the home of the southern potential shops. it was a 240 acre facility where every piece of moving equipment on this line went through here for maintenance and repair. this stopped real traffic out of many places. by extension is stopped rail traffic moving out of many other places. so to get rail traffic moving again, the federal government got involved and attached mail cars to every train, and they were federal property so the mail had to move. the very first train moved but was derailed by a broken rail and overturned an engineer and two people were killed in the process. so president grover cleveland brought in troops and they marched on the sacramento. they were here for two months. they walked on the lawns outside of the state capital. they had a significant contingent at the sacramento railyard its

involved.ugene debs he was tight in with the american railway union. he managed to get -- in many places to sympathetically strike with the pullman company strikers. but where it was most prevalent was here in sacramento. this was the home of the southern potential shops. every piece of moving equipment on this line went through here for maintenance and repair. this stopped real traffic out of many places. so to get a rail traffic moving again, the federal traffic got involved and they attached mail train, and they were federal property so the trains had to move. -- thery first train moved but wasin derailed by a broken rail and twoturned an engineer and people were killed in the process. so president grover cleveland brought in troops and they marched on the sacramento. they were here for two months. they walked on the lawns outside of the state capital. they had a significant contingent at the sacramento railyard itself. it was a hot summer with many and eventually people got tired of the strike and service redo -- service resumed. the rails began an