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SOCIETY PIPER Cindi McIntosh Behr with pipers of The Black Watch are among performers.
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MODELS of the famous two locomotives that met at Promontory Point in 1869 are on display. On the lower shelf are the two operatn te oco ot e of the n on c fic ro nc n the newly restored “Big Boy” No. 4014 and the “living legend” No. 844.
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