Well, this is Watson 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 sixties.

And he loved kids.

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

I'm Engineer Farley, and I'll be driving your train today.

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

Have any of you ridden with us before?

Oh, all right.

That's terrific.

Good job.

Okay.

Now, the name of our train is the Jimmy King Express.

Are we ready for our train ride?

All right.

Just got a 750 Kawasaki engine in it.

It's 26 horsepower.

We pulled three cars behind it.

We try to keep it under five miles an hour, and we go through a tunnel across the bridge.

And the tunnel is called Hoover Tunnel.

So we tell the kids when they go through that we want to hear a big woo-hoo!

My favorite part about the train would probably be in the tunnel, on the train when everybody like decides to scream.

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.

And of course, he drowns out my horn.

But it's a lot of fun.

And the kids love it.

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 its for all us big kids too.

So sometimes I think the older people enjoy it more than the younger ones.

We had one lady 98 years old.

She was our oldest rider I know of.

Well, everybody likes to reminisce.

Yeah, smiles.

I just hope the kids are happy.

And of course, I want them to come back.

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

It is so much fun.