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RAILWAY TO HEAVEN GREEN LAKE IS HOME TO HISTORIC CHAPEL CAR.(LIFESTYLE)

Before highways crisscrossed this country and automobiles became the preferred mode of travel, railroads ruled the realm. Trains then and today carried romantic names like the Empire Builder and Southwest Chief and folks could find all the amenities of home on board.

The American Baptist Assembly in Green Lake is the final stop for what may be the most unusual of all train cars: Chapel Car Grace. Between 1891 and 1915, seven Chapel Cars for Baptist, Catholic and Episcopal denominations were built and outfitted as combination churches and parsonages.

They were the inspired idea of Dr. Wayland Hoyt, then pastor of the First Baptist Church in Minneapolis, who noticed how ...

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