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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: Union Depot
Description: Postcard of the old Union depot at Union Avenue and Santa Fe Street in the West Bottoms.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Grand Central Station
Description: Postcard of Grand Central Station, once standing at 2nd and Wyandotte streets.
Object Type: Postcard

Title: Chastain Launches New Petition Drive Focusing on Transportation at Union Station
Description: Discusses petition drive launched by activist Clay Chastain to incorporate transportation into the redevelopment of Union Station.
Date: 1997-06-26
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Chastain Makes Request of Bistate Commission
Description: Describes efforts by activist Clay Chastain and the Citizens Act Now (CAN) group to petition the Bistate Commission to delay signing an operating agreement with the Union Station Assistance Corporation.
Date: 1997-02-20
Object Type: Newspaper 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: Brookside Extension (Proposed)
Description: Drawing of proposed Brookside Boulevard extension, from 47th Street to Union Station.
Date: 1926-01
Object Type: Photograph

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

Title: Streetcars Rolling into Reality
Description: Two possible routes--one on Main Street and the other on Grand Boulevard--are being considered for a rail line linking Union Station to the River Market area. "For about 20 years, Kansas City has spent millions of dollars trying to develop light-rail plans that covered many miles and reached into different areas of the city. This time, the city is focusing on a 2-mile route centered in downtown." Includes a color-coded map of the two possible routes. The "modern" streetcar, that looks like a light-rail train, would be employed on the route. The project could cost between $60 million and $100 million.
Date: 2011-08-22
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Commuter Rail Plan Receives $1.8 Million
Description: The federal grant "will fund two commuter rail studies" one from downtown Kansas City along Interstate 70 to Independence and Blue Springs, and one on an abandoned rail line toward Raytown and Lee's Summit," and it will also pay "to study a downtown streetcar line from the River Market to Union Station." Although other rail studies have been done in the area before since 1993, this study is supposed be different. 'The alignment is slightly different and the plan includes a different kind of commuter rail vehicle than what has been studied before."
Date: 2010-12-22
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: P26 Transportation Photograph Scrapbook Finding Aid
Description: The collection includes 549 negatives and 318 original prints of images taken in the 1910s focusing on railroads and transportation and rural and urban life. The geographic scope is the Midwest, primarily Missouri and Kansas. The railroad photographs pertain to the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad line. Scenes of both eastern Jackson County and Kansas City are common. The most striking features are the modes of transportation used at the time: the railroads, the newly evolving automobile, the street car, the interurban to Excelsior Springs, river boats, and an early airplane taking off in Overland Park.
Date: 1910/1917
Object Type: Finding Aid

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