
Episode 126: The 1946 Naperville Wreck
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The Corrupt Story of the Southern Pacific Railroad
The head of the Southern Pacific sent a secret memo to all the travel agent and booking agencies in California in a bid to kill the lark. In 2014, artist Paul Kuhn was commissioned to create a sculpture to commemorate the wreck with the questionable title of tragedy to triumph. There's a whole artist statement on the century walk that we can put in the description. It's fucking bad.
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