Kansas City: a train city

Of all the things I enjoy about this city--the arts, the people, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, the new Bloch Gallery, the Kemper Museum of Contepmorary Art, the Country Club Plaza, Loose Park, Mill Creek Park, the symphony, the new Kauffman Center, some of the restaurants (like Carmen's in Brookside with their bisteca modiga and all the tapas at La Bodega, etc., etc) and Union Station and Liberty Memorial and plenty of the architecture, one of the things I love the most is the sound of the lonesome train whistle. You can hear it from the Plaza to Midtown , of course, to downtown and out to Waldo and even in suburban Lee's Summit. It's outstanding. I love that we're a river town and always have been but you can only hear that we're a train town--or city. It's great. It pierces the night. And morning. That lonesome wail. You either get it--and like it--or you don't. Enjoy your Sunday, y'all.