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Local RR enthusiasts gain through BC project

By Brian Hagen

05/27/2025

Editor's note: An earlier version of this story, due to incomplete information utilized, omitted the complete list of team members. We apologize for this omission.

(KAIR)--A group of five Benedictine College students, working together as a team to complete their Senior Design Project, sees their goal realized through completion of a new children's amusement ride for the Atchison Train Club of the Northeast Kansas Railroaders.

Recognition and credit is given to the five students, Jacob Vaughn, Thomas Campbell, Ben Houlihan, Ben Sylvain, and Issac LeMark, who developed what's described in a Train Club release as a man powered rail cart. The purpose, according to the plans for the student project as provided by faculty at Benedictine College, "is to increase children's interest in railway history by providing a fun and safe physical object with which they can interact."

The final design uses a traditional 4-bar mechanism with a chain drive to drive the cart by pumping the handle, while two brake mechanisms ensure that the cart maintains a safe speed.

According to the Atchison Train Club's release, which says the final product earned an award for top senior project from BC, the cart "should provide for a lot of entertainment at the railroad club facility," located near Atchison's Santa Fe Depot at 200 South 10th Street.

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