Teenage vandals damage Wichita museum’s trains

23 May 2023

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Three Wichita teenage boys, ages 16-17, were arrested after vandalizing several train cars at a Wichita museum.

The Great Plains Transportation Museum, 700 E. Douglas, says on Saturday around 8 p.m., vandals gained access to the museum equipment display next to the Union Station Platform level in Old Town, causing at least $10,000 in damage to a locomotive, passenger car, two cabooses and a converted passenger car used as a repair and fabrication shop.


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Wichita police found the suspects using video from a camera that operates nonstop.

The teens were arrested on suspicion of burglary, criminal damage to property, and trespass.

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