carrie meyer: the union station operated until 1971. the last train left on may 2 and then it sat vacant for two years. and the union pacific gifted it to the city to become a museum. we made union station our home and now it is the durham museum. this exhibit focuses on the omaha livestock industry here in omaha. a very important industry for south omaha as a city, and then eventually for omaha as a whole. >> ♪ >> cattle marketing centers are strategically located, and omaha serves a large western area. it's holding pens have handled more than 100 million cattle since its founding. and here is our livestock train right on schedule. early morning arrival. carrie meyer: the livestock industry starts in the 1870's as a station, basically. a place for cattle to sort of get fed, have a feeding station before they had to a stockyard -- head to a stock are to be slaughtered. eventually, this turns into the stockyards as we know it. 1883 is the start of what we call union stockyards. and, so, that is the beginning of this industry here. we hav