#kansas city union station

[aryburn-trains]

Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 #759 departs Kansas City Union Station with the "Golden Spike Centennial Limited" excursion on May 14, 1969. Carl Sturner photo.

[rvllybllply2014]

Kansas City you’re my city and I love you so so so much but damn. At least 15 people shot at union station for the chiefs rally with 3 people in critical condition and one dead. It’s not a good look. Children were trampled but thanks to two idiots the way this city celebrates champs will be forever changed. Kansas City I’ve lived here 28 years and this isn’t the city I grew up in and love. Drunk idiots and guns don’t mix. To everyone affected stay safe.

[aryburn-kc]

Burlington E7A #9932-B at Kansas City Union Station, circa 1965.

[disneydelights]

I could post a lot more but this is just an example of the wonderful treasures to be found and explored. If you like anything Disney you should really make a trip to Kansas City before November 30, 2024 to see this exhibit. Here are a few more pictures just to whet your appetite!

[travelonourown]

Mon 4/22

After taking Lexa to the local KC dealer for a 10K service appointment, we headed into town, first visiting the gorgeous Nelson-Atkins art museum. It has a top-notch European collection (including some great Impressionist paintings), and is completely free! After our short visit, we enjoyed the adjoining sculpture garden, which included giant shuttlecocks and a Rodin “Thinker”. Next we drove to historic Union Station for a quick look around. After that we went to the Crossroads Art District where we hunted for fun murals on various streets and had nice cocktails and small plates at Tom’s Town Distilling, a very cool bar. They make vodka, bourbon and gin on site, and we bought a bottle of good gin to take along with us on our travel westward. Next we walked to the nearby Power and Light District to check out Art Deco edifices like the Power and Light Building and the Hotel President. After a few miles of walking we headed back to our hotel to rest before the long drive to Denver on Tuesday.

[yhebrew]

Union Station chief's Ground Zero

GROUND ZERO – Who is Drinking the Cool Aide? For America we note New York City as Ground Zero. The twin towers, pentagon and another plane was downed into the ground on 911 – September 11, 2001. Hebrew Date: 23 Elul 5761. Every event can be a ‘ground zero’ because it is about an event happening. Location: Gan of Eden lasted 7 years exactly before Adam and Chanoah were sanctioned. To-the-day…

[thatawaydad]

Kansas City: Fun at Science City at Union Station

Science City in Kansas City boasts over 300 interactive exhibits and has been named one of the top 25 science centers in the country. It consists of 92,000 square feet and is located in Kansas City’s historic Art Deco Union Station near downtown Kansas City. We went to Kansas City to see a Kansas City Mavericks Hockey game, my son plays hockey, and this was our fun activity on the…

[spdk1]

REVIEW: Spider-Man - Beyond Amazing at Union Station Kansas City [History Tour]

A Museum Exhibit Spider-Man – Beyond Amazing is the newest museum exhibition at Union Station in Kansas City, MO, promising to be a blast for all ages. Union Station has a large exhibition area in its lower level, and they bring in big exhibits on a yearly basis (give or take). I make my best effort to attend all of them that I can whenever they come into town. This one, chronicling the rise and…

[aryburn-trains]

Nickel Plate Road #759 in its Golden Spike Centennial Limited "American Railroads" paint scheme at Union Station Kansas City on May 14, 1969.

[rvllybllply2014]

At least some people were brave enough to stop a shooter quickly.

[2inx4inx8inbrick]

Union Pacific Bigboy 4014 leaving Kansas City Union Station

taken 10/17/24

[transit-fag]

Fuck it,

[mckitterick]

Exhibit A: Cops are worthless

More than 800 police were on duty Wednesday - 600 KCPD cops and an additional 250 from outside cop shops - for the Chiefs Super Bowl win parade and rally at Union Station. Despite their heavy presence, they failed to stop a mass shooting.

One person, local KKFI radio DJ Lisa Lopez-Galvan, was killed. An additional 22 people were injured, with three still in critical condition. About half the victims are children.

It's believed that the shooting occurred because of a dispute between teenagers who missed each other at least 23 times, not because of terrorism or extremism.

In the wake of this mass shooting - during a run of ever-increasing gun violence (though other crimes are dropping) - Kansas City residents are demanding stricter gun laws. But Missouri state law doesn't allow cities to pass gun-related laws (to stop KC from doing so, specifically), and Missouri has famously lax gun laws.

Cops do almost nothing to protect citizens, and nothing to prevent crime.

They exist merely to punish perpetrators, which has very little effect on violence, especially when state law essentially allows anyone to possess whatever weapons they wish, at any age, regardless of gun safety education, stability, or maturity.

Lots more info on the local NPR news site: X

[rootlessinterloper]

On Rain

The rain here in Halifax is ambiguous. It doesn’t speak a word. Or perhaps it speaks many, but doesn’t mean a single one; it has no conviction. It’s not like that elsewhere. 

In Toronto, the summer thunderstorms call out and beckon. The sky opens up like a great chasm trying to swallow the city, asphalt and bike lanes and litter and all. A mesmerizing yawp compels you to sit on your porch and watch its spectacle, as the deluge silences the cicadas. You hear not only rainfall but the sound of the grass and weeds and the sewer drains and the cracks in the sidewalk giving collective thanks. Then, mere minutes later, just when you begin to realize that there is no more beautiful sight in the world, the rain departs as suddenly as it arrived. Satisfied with its little show, it smugly retreats into the sky, as if to tease itself like a burlesque. Oh rain, you think, you playful devil. She will always return tomorrow, or perhaps the day after that. 

In the American Midwest, where hot streams of air from the Gulf of Mexico do battle with cold ones from Canada in a grand display of preternatural combat, the rain speaks strongly too. Stop at once, it shouts, ending the battle at once with its intervention. The air goes completely still in what one imagines the first few microseconds after a vacuum bomb is detonated feel like. Then, the sky is cleaved open by lightning; Kansas City’s art deco skyline is electrified, the Liberty Memorial and Union Station and the T-Mobile Centre are flash-frozen in place, followed by the most tremendous cannonade of thunder which shakes the earth itself. The rain there is not coy, it does not merely coerce attention – it demands worship. There is faint archeological evidence that the Pawnee and Missouria peoples would have worshipped a sky deity; there is strong intuitive evidence that the Pawnee and Missouria peoples would have worshipped a sky deity. 

Rain is so strongly correlated with emotions of sadness. Some people say that rain is like the sky crying, or the earth, or God, or Mother Nature. I can recall a certain moment it rained, during one of my many childhood summers spent on the Dalmatian coast, likely in a little town outside of Rijeka or Zadar but possibly as far south as Šibenik. The details escape me, but I do remember the rain. It was dark, the whole town was sleeping, and we were walking up this great hill from the marina to our apartaman. Without warning – no apocalyptic crack in the sky or commanding anthem of thunder – it began to rain so hard that the hill soon became little more than a waterslide, with sheets of rain nearly up to our knees. It was the funniest thing that had ever happened to me. We could hardly walk five steps without keeling over from laughter, our clothes drenched and clinging to our skin and shoes overflowing with water. The rain wasn’t crying; it was laughing. It was laughing along with us in the funniest joke I’d ever been party to. The sky was laughing so hard it cried; I know I certainly was. 

When it rains, I like to listen to its voice. I like to look for answers. Here, it provides me none.  It sits silently on the windshields of the cars in the dealership across the street, drips aimlessly through the eavestroughs and overhangs, collects in sterile little pools beneath the trees. I catch myself wishing sometimes that rain meant sadness; that it was crying and washing away all the happiness from the sidewalks, but it cannot even amount to that, voiceless and idle as it is. I suspect that it is somehow made of a substance thinner and weaker than water, like some cheap chemical substitute, a flagrant impostor. Why won’t it speak to me? Why will it give me no answers? Even the ocean here provides no catharsis; its waves lap the shore listlessly and they bear no meaning.

[silvermoon424]

Hi, sorry if this is a weird question, but I was wondering if you had any store recommendations in Kansas City for someone who enjoys anime and magical girls? I'm visiting for my birthday and wish to go to some stores. You don't have to answer if you'd rather not. I've really enjoyed your blog for some years and just wanted your opinions. Thanks

Oh wow, that's so cool you're visiting KC! It's a great city but not as much of a destination spot as other cities are.

Anyway, I would definitely go to Oak Park Mall! It's in Overland Park (the largest suburb of KC). You can look at the store directory on their site, but the stores with the most anime/manga stuff are

Hot Topic

Box Lunch

FYE

EntertainMART

Go! Calendars Toys Games

Barnes and Noble

In the city itself, there's a store called Yoki that sells anime stuff and Japanese snacks. I've never been there myself but the next time I'm in the city I'd love to swing by!

You can also go to Half Price Books (there are a couple in the area). They sell out-of-print manga and often have anime figures as well.

There's a recently-opened lolita fashion shop in Lee's Summit that has a lot of adorable magical girl-like accessories. Be sure to check the store hours though, they're closed some days.

On a non-anime note, some fun things to do/see in KC are

Worlds of Fun (only open in the summer/fall)

The National WWI Museum (the largest museum dedicated to WWI in the entire US!)

Union Station + Science City

The Nelson-Atkins Art Museum

If you like miniatures and vintage toys, there's an entire museum dedicated to them that's really cool

The American Jazz Museum

The Power and Light District has a lot of great restaurants and often there's live music