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Mark Rheaume, composer of &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onx6JMOBP2A">That&#8217;s the Way the Railroad Went</a>&#8221; discusses how he created a 38 minute piece of music incorporating interviews documenting the Central Iowa Railway Company, a short line with a brief existence in the 1970s.

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