The State of Missouri and Amtrak will restore the second of two daily round-trip trains on the Amtrak Midwest Missouri River Runner line between the Amtrak stations in Kansas City and St. Louis starting July 19.

Funding from the State of Missouri and the federal American Rescue Plan Act will keep those two round-trip trains running through the end of December 2021. This service was reduced to one round-trip each day in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

An Economic Impact Study of the Missouri River Runner found the service generates more than $200 million in annual economic impact in Missouri. It also supports more than 1,250 jobs in communities at the stops across the state, including Sedalia and Warrensburg in the KMMO listening area.