Ideas · 2026-09-02 · 55 min · 7,343 words

For 40 years trains brought classrooms to children

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Personally. From CBC Podcasts allows you to get lost in someone else's life. from a mysterious childhood spent on the run to a courageous escape from domestic violence, each season of Personally invites you to explore the human experience in all its complexity, one story or season at a time. This is what it sounds like to be human.

Find personally wherever you get your podcasts. This is a CBC Podcast. Welcome to Ideas. I'm Nala Ayad. It began with two chugging steam locomotives. School car number one.

And school car number two. They were also known as school trains. And schools on wheels. Mm.

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