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OCR: Pre- -automobile America saw fierce competition in the railroad business in this part of the mid-west. Galena was busy stop on the railroad. Bv 1901 there were three different companies competing for the freight and passenger business of Galena the Frisco Line, The Memphis Route and the MKT the famous Missouri Kansas Texas Railway the rail business gradually gave way to the automobile this MKT depot building found new life as the Mining and Historical Museum Galena Kansas Originally genuine mining boomtown of over 15 .000 inhabitants Galena has dwindled to fewer than 4000 citizens today. The townspeople aue museum director Howard Litch have dooe marvelous job recording ts history in this small museum Without their efforts this pristine railroad depot and important Route 66 site coula have ...