♪♪ [ Train whistle blows ] Allen: Well, this is Watson's Station.

We're located in Missouri Valley City Park.

And our station, it's made to look like a train station of the days gone by.

Johnny Watson used to drive the steam train here in the park until sometime in the mid-'60s, and he loved kids.

And so that's why we named the station after Johnny Watson.

I'm engineer Fonley, and I'll be driving your train today.

I come up here just so you guys can have a train ride.

[ Applause ] Have any of you ridden with us before?

Yes!

Yes!

Oh, all right.

That's terrific.

[ Bell clanging ] Good job!

Okay, now the name of our train is the Jimmy King Express.

Are we ready for a train ride?

Yes!

All right!

It's got a 750 Kawasaki engine in it.

It's 26 horsepower.

We pull three cars behind it.

[ Kids cheering ] We try to keep it under five miles an hour.

And we go through a tunnel.

[ Whistle blowing ] Then cross the bridge, and the tunnel is called Whoo-Whoo Tunnel.

Kids: Whoo-whoo!

So, we tell the kids when they go through that, we want to hear a big "whoo-whoo!"

Girl: My favorite part about the train was probably in the tunnel, on the train, when everybody, like, starts to scream.

Allen: It's really good when you're down at the lower end going across the bridge, and a big train comes by and the engineer waves to the kids and blows his horn.

Of course, he drowns out my horn.

But it's a lot of fun, and the kids love it.

[ Cheering ] Pitt: The kids enjoy it.

I enjoy it because I like to ride it, too.

And we do it every year.

Every year we come here at least once a year, and then we go over to the park and play afterwards.

It's not just for kids, for all of us big kids, too.

So...[ Laughs ] Sometimes I think the older people enjoy it more than the younger ones.

[ Whistle blows ] We had one lady, 98 years old.

She was our oldest rider that I know of.

Well, everybody likes to reminisce.

[ Train clanging, kids cheering ] Yeah.

Smiles.

I just hope the kids are happy.

And of course I want them to come back.

[ Whistle blows ] If they didn't let me volunteer, I would pay them to work here.

It is so much fun.

[ Whistle blows ] ♪♪ Whoo-whoo!

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