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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by ironhorseman No doubt about, Union Station is the best. What's the best train watching spot in the area? Is it: 1 The lower parking lot behind the station? 2 The upper parking lot at that office building on the other side of the station where the Amshack used to call home? 3 From high a top the Liberty Memorial? 4 From one of the bridges over Argentine Yard? 5 From the downtown airport parking lot? 6 Or somewhere else? My dad doesn't know beans about train chasing. When the Challenger was there he thought it would be neat to chase it all over the (*gosh darn*) city. We were told it would go through Independence, the route Amtrak takes. Well, we were told wrong. It took the river route all the way to St. Louis. Well, here it was over an hour after it had left Union Station, there was no way of catching it in the area now. So what's he do? He goes north looking for the river route! I didn't want to go. I had to wake up at 6 AM just to get to the station in time to see it off and hadn't had breakfast yet. So he dilly dallied around north Independence and got lost out in the middle of somewhere. Finally, after using the dirtest restroom in the dirtest truck stop in the dirtest part of Missouri I convinced him to head back into town. Somehow we came across the NS's autorack yard. There was more razor wire on those fences and more video surveillance than at Leavanworth Penitentiary. I don't know what convinced him to get the heck out there more: the cops or my growling stomache. I don't know what happened next becaused I passed out. When I woke up we were somewhere in north KC. We stopped at a Waffle House where I had breakfast at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Mmmmm.... waffles. So finally somehow we wound up at the airport on the other side of the river by downtown along about sundown where I saw two train run side by side. The moral of the story is if you want to go to KC to see trains PLAN YOUR EXCURSION IN ADVANCE! Don't just go running around willy nilly to places randomly. After leaving Union Station that was the worst trip I'd ever been on. Oh, and if you plan an doing any driving around the city you better hope your insurance is paid up. Mad drivers everywhere. Kansas City is a great place to see a variety of trains. If you want hamburgers or just a chocolate shake for lunch may I suggest Fitzes (or is it called Fritzes?) in the mall across the street. They deliver your food to your table via a model train. Very fun. Also you can see a street car named desire turned restaurant right there in the mall. It's all on the lower level. Somewhere up stairs is a model train store. Also, if you want to see model trains go to the Kansas City Museum. It's over there around Cliff Drive and Gladstone Blvd. It's in an area called Kessler Park. From Union Station take Main St. north to Truman Blvd. From Truman Blvd go east to Paseo Blvd. Follow that north around Cliff Drive to Gladstone Blvd. It's a history and science museum that used to be a mansion, but there's a model railroad in the basement. Just get out of there before dark because it's rumored the place is haunted. From that bluff you can see more trains but be sure to bring your binoculars. P.S. - get one of those Rand McNally Greater Kansas City city maps because they have the most detail. [/quote][8D][8D] been there the restuarant is cool as hell but i know kc like my hand that was the biggest auto prison in kc thats what i call it NS & BNSF both use it and UP but thats nothing compared to UP'S Livonia yd in plaquemine parish Louisiana about 10-15 miles n of the town of plaqemine the yds 5 miles from the nearest pay phone in the middle of a sugar cane its also a small over the hill hump
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