Back	Istanbul Lectures at the Ottoman Bank Museum Dream Stations Writer and Civil Engineer, Mert Sandalcı, is our guest speaker at the Istanbul Lectures this month, with a presentation entitled, "Dream Stations." Sandalcı will recount the story of the Kağıyhane-Kemerburgaz-Ağaçlı-Çiftalan narrow-gauge railroad line, illustrating his lecture with a film screening. This free lecture, offered by the Museum, will be held on Wednesday, June 8, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The narrow-gauge railroad line that linked Kağıthane-Kemerburgaz-Ağaçlı-Çiftalan was put into operation, from 1914 to 1916, to bring coal to Istanbul from the lignite mines on the shores of the Black Sea. Accompanying the lecture is a film screening depicting the laying of the line to meet the coal requirements of the Ottoman Navy and of the power plant of Silahtarağa, and its subsequent dismantling once it had become unusable after World War I. Born in 1958, in Istanbul, Mert Sandalcı finished Işık High School, then graduated from the Galatasaray Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Istanbul State Academy of Architecture and Engineering. He worked as site manager at the Edirne Cement Factory, the Çorlu Nato Airbase and, finally, on the second Bosphorus Bridge. He ended this professional career in 1988 to publish books on the collections and research he had been working on. In this new period of his professional life, Sandalcı was for a time editor-in-chief of the magazine Tombak. He then published Belgelerle Türk Eczacılığı (The Documented Turkish Pharmacy (7 vol), Max Fruchtermann Kartpostalları (The Postcards of Max Fruchtermann) (3 vol) and in collaboration with Prof. Emre Dölen, the Kağıthane-Kemerburgaz-Ağaçlı-Çiftalan Railroad. Sandalcı who has participated in a number of congressional and vocational meetings and written articles for various publications, received the Hacı Hamdi Bey Award at the History of Pharmacy Meetings held on June 6, 2002, and the Service Award, for service to the profession of pharmacy, in May 2004. The writer's Feyz-i Sıbyan'dan Işık'a Feyziye Mektepleri and the 8th volume of the Documented Turkish Pharmacy will be published this year.