Union Station, Railway station in Kansas City, United States.
Union Station opened in 1914 and was designed by architect Jarvis Hunt in the Beaux-Arts style, featuring a grand hall with a 95-foot (29-meter) ceiling and a 6-foot (1.8-meter) diameter clock face that remains a defining element of the interior.
The station handled over 678,000 passengers in 1945 during its peak years and became the site of the infamous 1933 Kansas City Massacre, during which law enforcement officers and fugitive Frank Nash were killed in a shootout outside the building.
After decades of declining rail traffic and a major restoration completed in 1999, Union Station now operates as a cultural center housing Science City, the Arvin Gottlieb Planetarium, theaters, restaurants, and rotating exhibitions that draw visitors throughout the year.
The station is located at 30 West Pershing Road and serves Amtrak passengers on the Southwest Chief route to Chicago and Los Angeles, and the Missouri River Runner to St. Louis, with over 400 daily boardings and departures.
A volunteer-run Model Train Gallery at the north end of the Grand Plaza features over 80 working model trains circling miniature cityscapes, with special decorations during the holiday season that attract train enthusiasts and families year-round.
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