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Making tracks by day, night

Trains and tunes are his specialties

By Nancy Shohet West
Globe Correspondent / May 13, 2007

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As an Irish-born train conductor working the Boston-New Haven daily, Martin Butler sees himself as part of a longstanding cultural tradition. When he started with Amtrak in 1994 , there were two other Irish conductors on his line alone. (Full article: 1049 words)

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