Grapevine opened the new two-story, nearly 40,000-square-foot Convention and Visitors Bureau headquarters and museum complex at the corner of Main and Hudgins streets to the public May 18 during the 28th Annual Main Street Days.

The building's special attraction, the "would-be train robbers," features two 9-foot glockenspiel cowboys who emerge onto the clock tower platform just before noon and 6 p.m. every day for an old-fashioned shootout.

With both looking to end their financial woes and $60,000 rolling into the Cotton Belt Depot on the line, cowboys Nat Barrett and Willy Majors eventually learn the lesson that crime doesn't pay.

The CVB paid about $161,500 for the two figures and clock tower with revenues collected from the city's hotel occupany tax.

Since its debut, the two figures have been undergoing mechnical refinements and testing which may affect their emergence during the regularly scheduled times. Weather conditions can also affect their emergence from the tower.

Visit www.grapevinetexasusa.com/wouldbetrainrobbers for details.