Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In the early 1900s, it stored trolleys that transported Johnson County’s first residents to Kansas City. After cars put the line out of commission, the building became an auto repair shop, a ...
The KC Streetcar is a one-route streetcar system in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. [8] Construction began in May 2014, [9] and service began on May 6, 2016. The KC Streetcar is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area's integrated public transit brand RideKC, and is operated by the Kansas City Streetcar Authority.
The first electric streetcar operated in Kansas City on September 6, 1889. [7] By 1908, all but one of Kansas City's streetcar routes had been converted to electricity. [1] When the Kansas City Public Service Company (KCPS) was created in 1925, it inherited over 700 streetcars that had been owned and operated by private companies. [5]
Lowell National Historical Park Trolley: Lowell (second era) Electric 1984 Resurrected as a 1-mile heritage streetcar line, operational; expansion into commuter interurban proposed and discussed 1999–2016. [96] [97] [98] Lynn: Horse 1854 ? Lynn and Boston Railroad: Electric November 19, 1888 [99] [100] 1937
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
From 1909 to 2012, the Folgers Coffee plant roasted coffee for the country and, at the same time, perfumed downtown Kansas City. The former factory was located at the intersection of 8th and ...
The Missouri and Kansas Interurban Railway was an interurban line running from Kansas City, Missouri through downtown Overland Park to Olathe in Kansas. It ran from 1906 until July 9, 1940 and was the last of the interurban trolley lines in the Kansas City metropolitan area . [ 1 ]
There are 342 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Kansas City. Downtown Kansas City includes 160 of these properties and districts; the city's remaining properties and districts are the National Register of Historic Places listings in Kansas City, Missouri. One historic district overlaps the downtown and non-downtown ...