Passenger Trains > Missouri budget includes funding for Amtrak station at Carrollton

Carrollton is on the route of the Southwest Chief, and about 70 miles east of Kansas City Union Station. The bill is for $1M, and does require a local match. 
https://www.kmmo.com/2022/05/06/state-representative-mcgaugh-and-state-senator-hoskins-announce-funding-for-amtrak-station-in-carrollton/

This sounds like a good idea! The stretch of the SW Chief between Kansas City and La Plata is a very long stretch without a stop. Carrollton Station wouldn't just serve people wanting to go to Carrollton but other towns too within about an hour drive east of KCY. Even certain towns served by the Missouri River Runner like Warrensburg would benefit from a station in Carrollton on the SW Chief.

1960:  I talk to the Carrollton ATSF agent to try to get #12 "Chicagoan" to stop that day at Carrollton at 12:25 p.m.  It was a conditional stop.  Agent said: if I had at least three people, he would stop it.  I had my three passengers.  Two of us went to Chillicothe and one person to Chicago.  NICE trip.  We sat in the Great Dome and enjoyed ATSF operation.  Fare was about $8.00 to Chillicothe for me.  Four hours and ten minutes later, we came down the hill into Chillicothe.  

Since I was attending high school in Concordia, MO (25 miles south of Carrollton), this trip was repeated several times per year.  The agent was a kind friendly man.  The trips made me into a railroad employee later in life.  

I believe the Carrollton station was torn down a a years ago?

But no restoration of the 2ND Missoui River Runner?

2nd Mule was just funded.

MEKoch Wrote:
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> 1960:  I talk to the Carrollton ATSF agent to try
> to get #12 "Chicagoan" to stop that day at
> Carrollton at 12:25 p.m.  It was a conditional
> stop.  Agent said: if I had at least three
> people, he would stop it.  I had my three
> passengers.  Two of us went to Chillicothe and
> one person to Chicago.  NICE trip.  We sat in
> the Great Dome and enjoyed ATSF operation.  Fare
> was about $8.00 to Chillicothe for me.  Four
> hours and ten minutes later, we came down the hill
> into Chillicothe.  
>
> Since I was attending high school in Concordia, MO
> (25 miles south of Carrollton), this trip was
> repeated several times per year.  The agent was a
> kind friendly man.  The trips made me into a
> railroad employee later in life.  
>
> I believe the Carrollton station was torn down a a
> years ago?

 The Carrollton station is still there.. Whether or not  BNSF would allow Amtrak to use it would be a different story.
 

Duane Witte
Holt, MO

The Warrensburg, MO Station is in process of getting a completely new and extended length platform and new lighting.

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Marty Harrison
Knob Noster, MO

Reported from a station host, state says July 1 for start up of 2nd Mule.

Ed