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Between Kansas City and Oklahoma City, they carried Pullman sleeping cars that ran overnight to/from Dallas on the Fast Fifteen and Chicago Express (trains 15/16). The Santa Fe also began operating a Kansas City–Tulsa streamliner (trains 211/212) that connected with the Chicagoan and Kansas Cityan at Kansas City.
Terry Stafford designed a new four-cylinder car with shaft-drive introduced as a mid year-model in 1906. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The Great Smith of 1907 was priced at $2,500 (equivalent to $81,750 in 2023) with a 318 in 3 (5213 cc) (4.5×5-inch, 114×127mm) water-cooled four, four-speed sliding gear transmission (three forward, one reverse), multi-disk ...
Fastline Class 66 66434 seen at Chester operating a Chirk Kronospan to Carlisle logging train for Colas Rail, 4 months after Fastline ceased trading. Fastline was created by six railwaymen who undertook a successful management buyout (MBO) of Eastern Track Renewals from British Rail in 1996. In that year they bought Northern Track Renewals from ...
The Kan-O-Tex logo was a Kansas sunflower behind a five-point star. [ 7 ] The station is home to a 1951 International boom truck on which Pixar 's animated character Tow Mater was based; Joe Ranft , a Pixar animator, discovered it during a research trip for the movie Cars . [ 8 ]
Lakeside Speedway is a 4/10 mile auto racing Dirt track located in Kansas City, Kansas. It features racing on a weekly basis from March to October, In, USRA Stock Car, USRA B-Mod, E-Modifieds, Pure Stock categories. Racing at the track is sanctioned by United States Racing Association.
The Kansas City Zephyr made its inaugural run on February 1, 1953, as an all-new daylight streamliner between Chicago and Kansas City. The new train was prompted by the completion the previous October of the $16-million "Kansas City Shortcut", 49 miles of new track that made the route shorter, flatter, and straighter.
Kansas first issued vanity plates in 1975 to trucks only 1976 to 1979 registration years Embossed white serial on blue plate with "KANSAS 76" at top and county abbreviation/month of expiration at bottom various: various: 1976 was the first year that vanity plates were issued to cars 1980 to 1984 registration years
The Kansas Turnpike is a 236-mile (380 km) ... As of 2024, motorists driving two-axle vehicles (such as cars and motorcycles) pay 4.8¢ per mile driven if using a K ...