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Archive Home > 2006 > October > 16 > Railroad club makes tracks in Bend

Railroad club makes tracks in Bend

Model train buffs hold annual open house, offer train rides to kids

By Christine Metz / The Bulletin
October 16, 2006

Trains run in Conrad Firkus's blood.

His great-grandfather was an engineer for the Southern Pacific Railroad and once ran the steam engine out of Klamath Falls. Of his great-grandfather's 16 children, nine brothers went to work for the railroad.

Among them was Firkus's grandfather, who....

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