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MISSION STATEMENT
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None needed – we're not on a mission.
So, the "Central Pacific Railroad Photographic
History
Museum"
has no mission statement – if you can't figure out what information can
be found on this website (stereoviews, engravings, maps,
and documents illustrating the history of the
first transcontinental railroad) after reading the title and
links at the top of each page
or by glancing at a page or two we
doubt that anything further that we could possibly say here would really help
much.
This
is a publication – when was the last time
that you found a mission statement
in
a
book?
We have none. Strictly voluntary. If you suffer from an Edifice complex or
concrete thinking and need to find hallowed halls or credentials so
that you'll know that it's OK to believe
everything you read
on this
website,
you
should
instead learn to evaluate information and to think for yourself. But, perhaps
you might want to look at what others have written in order to help
you to judge
our reputation
for quality and accuracy.
(While we're on the subjects of transportation
and credentials,
Wilbur
and Orville Wright were bicycle mechanics who certainly lacked adequate
credentials
to do pioneering
aeronautical
engineering
research, nor was Doc. Strong, a druggist, qualified
to locate a transcontinental railroad route through the Sierras, nor were four
Sacramento shopkeepers and ten thousand Chinamen qualified
to build one! OK, so we do have advanced degrees and academic credentials and
we are on a mission to make all the children studying the transcontinental
railroad above
average – so what?)