Location60th Street & NW Waukomis Drive, Kansas City MO 64151 |
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The Kansas City Northern Miniature Railroad operates seasonally.
May-September | Saturdays | 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sundays and Holidays | 12-6 p.m.
The Railroad
KCNRR is an all volunteer, not for profit, 501c(3) corporation operating under the KC Parks Partner program. The group was formed in 1984 when the Kansas City Parks & Recreation Department asked for volunteers to restore and operate the former Kansas City Zoo train that had been in Swope Park.
The Trains
The Kansas City Northern Railroad operates on a half mile oval track and maintains the Southern Belle – Southern No. 31, the City of Kansas City – Union Pacific No. 910, and The Eagle – Missouri Pacific No. 651. All of the trains are Model G-16’s, meaning the operate on a 16″ gauge track, and were built by the Miniature Train Company of Rensselaer, IN and by the Alan Herschell Company of N. Tonawanda, New York.
Take a ride on the train via YouTube!
Nearly 200 hundred years after the area’s first fur trading post was settled on the bluffs of the Missouri River, Kansas City is preparing to honor the French pioneer Francois Chouteau who established it, and the Native Americans with whom he traded. Francois Chouteau...
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