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  • Local historian to speak on railroad’s relationship to planned TTC

    11/12/2008 7:09:56 PM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 4 replies · 399+ views
    The Wichita Falls Times Record News ^ | November 11, 2008 | Amanda Warner
    History tends to repeat itself in more ways than one. Wichita Falls historian and author Steve Goen has again been asked to give a presentation at George Bush Presidential Library and Museum at the Texas A&M campus at College Station Nov. 22. This will be his second appearance at the library. Goen’s presentation, “The Katy Railroad — Our State’s Original Trans-Texas Corridor,” will showcase the evolution of transportation along the Blackland Prairie in Central Texas. “Gov. Rick Perry and politicians in Austin are pushing for a superhighway with a railroad running through it,” Goen said. “There’s a lot of resistance...