For Rob and Anthony Dickson, family values trump bigger paychecks. Rail Ties tells the story of a father-son team working at the Aberdeen Carolina and Western Railroad and what keeps them there.

“The creativity, the freedom to be creative, the freedom to make mistakes. That’s not something that I had before. If you made a mistake, you had to pay for it.”

Water beads on a railway track
A man climbs onto the front of a train
Two men work on the underside of a train
Two men talk in the conductor's area of a train
Four men in blue shirts and jeans stand on and alongside trains
A front view of a steam engine

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