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Kirkwood Train Station Open House on National Train Day

Bring the family to the Kirkwood Amtrak Station Saturday learn more about history and train safety from the Kirkwood Police Department.

The following information was provided by the Kirkwood Police Department in a news release.

Kirkwood Police will participate in "National Train Day" Saturday, May 11, 2013, at the Kirkwood Amtrak Station by having safety information and handouts for children and adults especially focusing on staying safe around railroad tracks and crossings. The event is Saturday May 11 from 9am to 2pm at the Kirkwood Amtrak Station 110 West Argonne Drive. Other displays at the Amtrak Station Open House will include Kirkwood Historical Society, Kirkwood Police and Fire Departments, Union Pacific Railroad Police Special Agents, Missouri Operation Lifesaver, an operating model train layout, Big Bend Model Railroad club, National Railway Historical Society, a telegraph display and demonstration from The Morse Telegraph Club, and the National Museum of Transport among others.

Food will be available by donation from the Kirkwood Optimist Club. Live music will be performed after 10 a.m. 

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Amtrak will have a drawing for 2 sets of tickets to Chicago or Kansas City or points in between. 

National Train Day has been sponsored by Amtrak for the past 6 years and this year marks Amtrak's 42nd birthday. National Train Day marks 144 years of connecting travelers coast to coast and commemorates the day the first transcontinental railroad was created. On May 10, 1869, in Promontory Summit, Utah, the golden spike was driven into the final tie that joined 1,776 miles of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railways, transforming America by creating the nation‘s first transcontinental railroad. 

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For more information visit www.nationaltrainday.com.

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