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I also don't get the whole train thing - we used to see ourselves as the futuristic "Space City", and we build a stadium dedicated to ...the railroad? WTF? I understand that the old Union Station used to be there, but that was hardly a landmark like Grand Central Station, or even Penn Station.


Long before oil and space, Houston was a railroad town. The train is an homage to that and to Union Station that was incorporated into the design of the park.
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