Railroad Hall of Fame

[Knothead]

GALESBURG - Imagine an 84,500-square-foot building, a $60 million
project with a central architectural feature rising six stories above
an atrium. Now, picture all this in Kiwanis Park, visible from
Interstate 74. The National Railroad Hall of Fame is about to make
the
move from vision toward reality.

Jay Matson, chairman of the Hall of Fame Board, and Steve
Gerstenberger, board member, are confident the hall will become "a
national icon."

Peter S. LaPaglia, president of LaPaglia and Associates, Inc., has
been hired as a consultant to help develop the master plan for the
Hall of Fame. Work on the plan began in January 2005 and is expected
to be completed in August 2006.

"We actually started fundraising for the master plan in October,"
Matson said. Pledges for $250,000 are in hand for the local portion
of
the fundraising.

"The community campaign will have a goal of a half-a-million
(dollars)," Matson said. That will be officially announced at a press
conference at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Galesburg City Hall.

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