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[NMRA Bulletin Letter Response]

Clipping of a letter written to the NMRA Bulletin by a man named Rick Perry regarding the use of fiberglass as insulation. He was part of the crew who swapped out the fiberglass insulation with asbestos, and wrote to dispute a previous letter to the bulletin about using fiberglass insulation. Written below the clipping is "- NMRA Bulletin Jan 1979."

Date: January 1979

Creator: Perry, Rick

Item Type: Clipping

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[News Script: 200 Mile Wheat Field]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story saying that along the central gulf region of the United States there is a wheat field 191-miles long and one row wide.

Date: February 7, 1974, 12:00 p.m.

Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Script

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Electric Railway.

Patent for an electric railway that has the electric conductor on or under the ground, in a tube. The tube gets electricity to the trains via contact-pieces embedded in the tube, and it collapses whenever the train wheels go over it. The tube and conductor are kept safe in a u-shaped hanger underground.

Date: January 12, 1897

Creator: Lomb, George W. C.

Item Type: Patent

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