KANSAS CITY WON!!!

According to a release yesterday over at "Mary Anne's Kansas City, MO Blog" (see link below), Kansas City will, in fact, get to go from Kansas City, through St. Louis--for a time, anyway--down to Little Rock on a good old-fashioned steam engine train.  Check it out:

Union Pacific's Great Excursion Adventure will start in Kansas City

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

For the first time ever, Union Pacific let the people decide where their steam engine would be routed.  Pitted against three other adventures--the Tuscola Turn (through Iowa and Illinois), Baton Rouge Rambler (through Texas and Louisiana) and the Boise Limited (through Idaho and Utah)--it was announced that the Little Rock Express, which boasts Kansas City as the starting point, won the highly anticipated event with 76,217 official votes.

The Union Pacific will start in Kansas City and head across the great state of Missouri, going South after St. Louis, through Cape Girardeau, Poplar Bluff and ending in Little Rock.

Details of the trip have yet to be announced as of yesterday.  You can keep checking at http://www.upexcursioin.com for information.

Very cool.

Link:  http://kansascity.about.com/b/2011/01/18/union-pacifics-great-excursion-adventure-will-start-in-kansas-city.htm