We love this town and we love the history! Crazy to think that we came around only a few months later... #kansascity #youareloved
It was 110 years ago today, on October 30, 1914, that Kansas City came together to celebrate the grand opening of its new Union Station. The finished construction project cost nearly $6 million and was part of a $50 million investment by the Kansas City Terminal Railroad that also included track additions, switching towers, viaducts, and bridges. Today, that would be equivalent to approximately $170 million and $1.4 billion. The construction of Union Station involved the excavation of 670,000 cubic feet of dirt and brick, and at the peak of construction, approximately 500 people worked on the project. When completed, its 850,000 square feet of space and 900 rooms made Union Station the third largest train station in the country, only behind Grand Central Station, NYC, and Pennsylvania Station, NYC. Union Station opened to the public on October 30, 1914. And at just after midnight on the morning of November 1, 1914, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Flyer became the first train to arrive at the newly opened station.