Matthew Sabath has been with the railroad since 2003. In Marty Paten's book "The Columbia Branch Railroad," Sabath recounted the night in 2005 when a pickup slammed into the side of the train at a ...

The presentation on the Columbia Branch Railroad by local historian and author Marty Paten ran from 1-3 p.m. There are more than 21 miles of railroad between Columbia and Centralia today on the ...