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Published: April 20, 2008
Getting aboard plans to expand services
By Ja’Rena Lunsford
It's been 77 years since passengers first began lining up at Oklahoma City 's Union Station to jump aboard a Rock Island or Frisco passenger train.

Although the 55,000 square foot station, complete with its high ceilings and marble trim, still stands just south of downtown, the station's days of serving passengers have ended.

But passenger rail service in Oklahoma does not have to be a thing of the past...

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