Jameson Willis-Carroll walks through a dinner car of the Columbia Star Dinner Train

July 12, 2011 | 8:57 p.m. CDT

Jameson Willis-Carroll, 12, walks through a dinner car of the Columbia Star Dinner Train on Tuesday during an open house. The train will make it's first dinner cruise from Columbia to Centralia on Friday.

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