Author tracks history of Columbia-to-Centralia rail line

Monday, April 30, 2012 | 6:00 a.m. CDT; updated 7:54 a.m. CDT, Monday, April 30, 2012

COLUMBIA — Silhouetted against the falling sun, Marty Paten stood between the tracks in Centralia at the switch where the railroad to Columbia begins curving away from the mainline. 

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