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In April 1930, a 66-ton embalmed finback whale named Goliath was exhibited in a glass-enclosed railcar on the C&O spur tracks at East Main Street. Three thousand people came the first night, guided by a searchlight. The visit — one stop on the Pacific Whaling Company's railcar tours of inland America — has vanished from Lexington's public memory.