Trains At Christmas Time

This Christmas, we thought we take the Cassandra down to Union Station to see how she would react to hundreds of screaming kids.  OK, not quite true.  Kansas City Southern Railway has for many years put together a Holiday Express Train that kids love.  This gets tied in with many of the exhibits that are a permanent or semi-permanent part of Union Station.

Cassandra had a lot of fun.  Of course, the big favorites are Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends.  She busied herself by pointing out his friends including James shown below.

We also found Thomas pulling Annie and Clarabel.

Cassandra enjoyed seeing a LEGO train set much larger than our sets.  I think she wanted for us to go buy some more LEGOs so we could have a setup like this in our house.

Included in the exhibits was a restored train that used to run during the holidays at Macy's.  We even knew the engineer from Church.

And here are some shots of the Holiday Express.  Cassandra had a ball.