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How To Own A Train Station
Lets Talk Trains
English - February 18, 2012 18:00 - 2 hours - 27.3 MB - ★★★★ - 32 ratingsHobbies Leisure hobbies trains railroad museums amtrak steam railfan railroads passenger rail freight rail Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This week, we travel back to Kirkwood, Missouri to find how the City of Kirkwood bought the Kirkwood AMTRAK station and operate it. We will talk with the Mayor of Kirkwood, Art McDonnell and Station Master Bill Burckhalter and a station volunteer. We will also talk with the former tourism director of Washington, MO about how Washington became a AMTRAK stop, what we can do as railfans can do to help or city own station.