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The Santa Fe & St. Mary Bell
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In 1899, a brass bell was mounted on Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Steam Locomotive #419, manufactured in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The locomotive saw active service through the late 1930s along the railroad's main lines through Kansas. In 1958, the ATSF Railroad donated the bell to St. Mary Catholic Church in Derby, where from 1958 to 1999 its clanging from the bell tower at 433 North Derby Street summoned people across Derby to worship. The bell remained in the church tower until 2011, when the property was sold to the City for Madison Avenue Central Park, and in 2015 the church donated the bell to the Derby Historical Museum.
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