It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! today's image is of the beautiful CPKC locomotive 2816 also known as the Empress. It is on it's Final Spike railway tour that is taking it from Canada to Mexico. It stopped in Kansas City for an event at Union Station there and many people came out to see the beautifully restored locomotive. It was really great to be able to see it in person. I knew of the locomotive due to it starring in the Imax type movie Rocky Mountain Express.
Happy Monday and happy new week! Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, it's Christmas day! Today's image is looking back towards the entrance to the Grand Plaza where the light show was. It was all quite beautiful and magical looking with all the lights and decorations.
Happy Christmas Eve to those who celebrate! It's also Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! Sharing something a bit different for the day. High above your head in the KC Union Station near the model trains that were on display and over the vintage train ride that was available for children was a Christmas train. It had Santa sitting in it and waiving and he was animatronic but looked incredibly lifelike which didn't really come through in the photo, I don't think. Anyway, the train was a nice looking realistic steam train I thought.
It's Friday, TGIF and the start of my winter break! Because Friday's Are Bokehlicious, I am sharing this photo I took as I was going inside Union Station. In a small garden area outside there were these flowers I was very surprised to see still blooming. I believe they are a type of Aster but which type I am uncertain, possibly New England Aster. Whatever they are they usually do not bloom in December! Kansas City has had very cold weather as well, at least into the low 20s. The area is a bit protected and has a lot of concrete around which may keep the temperature up. Whatever the reason, they were lovely to see.
Out in the main area at Union Station, it was quite decorated up for Christmas as well. This was a group of trees that greeted you as you enter with Mickey Mouse dressed as a railroad engineer.
When you are in the light show at Union Station there is a water fountain show. They have quite a number of fountain spouts that shoot up jets of water in different amounts and directions in time to Christmas music. It's pretty impressive and was quite lovely to watch. I have a short video here where you can see a bit of the show. Wish I had caught a bit more of the end. Ah well. It can be seen HERE.
Happy Monday and new week!. It's the week leading up to Christmas if you celebrate and hope you have your Christmas shopping done. 😅 I am going to celebrate the season by sharing some images I took on a visit to Union Station in Kansas City last week to view their light show and model railroads. This first image is as you entered the light show. It reminded of walking through a stargate if you were a fan of that show.
