The December issue of "Trains" magazine has a great article about Kansas City Union Station. One of the positive lessons from the article is how the "can do" attitude of a community can make good and grand things happen without endless exclusive dependency on big government. Hope everyone gets a chance to read it.
Posted by Gilbert B Norman (Member # 1541) on :
Bravo; reviewed it just this morning.
Little did I know that Jack Stacks restaurant, where Mr. Pullman and I have gone together, appears to be located in a one-time MILW facility. By my day at the MILW, they had reloed to N KC at a joint agency with the KCS. This enabled both roads to interchange traffic without using KCT Ry and minimizing use of such in interchanging with others such as ATSF.
KCT Ry was divided into zones; the less of them you used, the less you paid.
Posted by PullmanCo (Member # 1138) on :
Since I live in KC,
The 1st key issue is footprint. When Union Station got its rebuild, KC needed office and meeting space. It got superb space. Its finally got a business model that works, too.
The 2nd key issue was funding. We were able to get a regional tax in place to fund the rebuild. That said, that was the only time a regional tax passed.
Amtrak uses two tracks which appear not to have been part of the original station. They are north of the original main waiting room.