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Locomotive and Railway Preservation 1996 November December
Features
4 Union Pacific Museum Relocates
by John Gruber
The archives and exhibits of this railroad industry giant are now known as the Union Pacific Collection, and are housed within Omaha, Nebraska's Western Heritage Museum.
18 In Profile: Charles Albi
by B. A. Diehl
As executive director of the Colorado Railroad Museum, Charles H. Albi is the "man in the middle," engineering an already-popular museum from past to future through vision, diplomacy, and leadership.
24 The Public Be-Damned?
by H. Roger Grant
Setting the record straight about W. H. Vanderbilt's "famous remark."
26 Market Street Returns
by Walter E. Rice, EmilianoJ. Echeverria, and Robert Callwell
First surveyed in 1849, San Francisco's Market Street is today North America's only big-city "main street" featuring streetcars. The story of their return to this historic thoroughfare blends economics and preservation, offering new hope for supporters of civic revitalization.
36 Answer to the Golden Spike's Prayer
by Norman and Wilma Taylor
For over 60 years beginning in 1890, a unique fleet of "chapels on rails" helped spread the gospel of the Episcopal, Baptist, and Catholic churches to the lonely and oftentimes destitute communities along America's vast rail network.
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