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Title: Say-So: Union Station Lays Tracks into Future
Description: Article about the plans to preserve and renovate Union Station, with photos and illustrations, into a potential science museum and public transportation hub.
Date: 1997-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Stilwell's Dream
Description: Illustration and biographical article about Arthur Stilwell, a railroad and interurban street railway builder in Kansas City residing at 720 East Armour Boulevard in 1902. Story of his dream that year about building a railroad station (the later Union Station) "between Main street and Broadway on 20th and 21st street." Also overview of the modern (1940s) transportation industry in Kansas City, comparing rail traffic to the trucking industry, buses, aviation, and barges by river, with statistics.
Date: 1946-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Transportation Facilities, Their Distribution and Territory: The Kingdom of Kansas City
Description: Article about the transportation facilities and geographic advantages of Kansas City, with illustrations of the new Union Station and a table comparing populations of Kansas City and Saint Louis from 1900 to 1920.
Date: 1915-05-15
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Towerman: A Man Who Can Run Nine Trains on Eight Tracks Is One of the Reasons Why American Railroads Are Able to Carry the War Load
Description: Photos and biographical article about Earl Robertson, "[t]he guiding genius of Kansas City's Tower No. 5" for several railroads at Union Station. Description of his career at the age of 62 and role in the World War II effort, "shuffl[ing] as many as a hundred and fifty trainloads of soldiers and war equipment."
Date: 1943-06-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Two Stage Lines Share City Terminal and Shops: Favorable Location of Terminal in Heart of Kansas City (Mo.). ..
Description: Article about the Union Bus Depot across from the Baltimore Hotel, home of both the Inter-State Stage Line and the White Transportation Company.
Date: 1924-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Traffic Control and Facilitation: How Kansas City, Missouri, Designs Safety Zones
Description: Photos and article by T. J. Seburn, city traffic engineer of Kansas City in 1937, concerning design and implementation of safety measures in the streets, such as median platforms, speed limit signs, etc. to decrease automobile and streetcar accidents with pedestrians. Photos depicting part of Union Station and presumably the former Signboard Hill.
Date: 1937-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

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