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The Kansas City, Leavenworth and Western Railway was an electrified interurban trolley which in its final form ran about 26 miles from Leavenworth, Kansas to Kansas City, Missouri. Its original version was created in 1900, and it continued in one form or another until 1938.
Kansas City, Leavenworth and Atchison Railway: Leavenworth Depot and Railroad Company: ATSF/ MP/ RI/ UP: 1885 1968 N/A Leavenworth, Kansas and Western Railway: UP: 1897 1908 Union Pacific Railroad: Leavenworth, Lawrence and Fort Gibson Railroad: ATSF: 1858 1866 Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad: Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston ...
Chicago and South Western Railway: Leavenworth, Kansas and Western Railway: UP: 1897 1908 Union Pacific Railroad: Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western Railroad: UP: 1855 1863 Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division: Leavenworth and Platte County Bridge Company: CGW: 1888 1892 Leavenworth Terminal Railway and Bridge Company: Leavenworth and St ...
Kansas City, Clay County and St. Joseph Railway [2] 1913: 1933: Kansas City, Kaw Valley and Western Railway [2] 1914: 1949: Later Kansas City, Kaw Valley Railroad. Freight traffic continued until 1963 Kansas City, Lawrence and Topeka Railway [2] 1903: 1934: Earlier Kansas City and Olathe Electric Railway; later Kansas City, Merriam and Shawnee ...
The Kansas City, Kaw Valley and Western Railway (reporting mark KV&W) [1] was incorporated on July 28, 1909 in the State of Kansas and operated as an interurban electric railway that ran between the American cities of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, between 1914 and 1963. Passenger service was eliminated on the Lawrence segment ...
The Kansas Pacific began in 1855 as the Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western Railroad, and was later reorganized in 1863 as the Union Pacific Eastern Division. The UP Eastern was authorized by the United States Congress as part of the Pacific Railway Act , in order to create a second southerly branch of the transcontinental railroad , alongside the ...
The west end of this branch would be at an intersection with the Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western Railroad, a planned connection from Kansas City to the main transcontinental line. The company would only receive land for the first 100 miles (160 km) from Atchison. [4]
The carrier was incorporated on January 16, 1892, under the laws of Kansas, for a term of 99 years. The purposes for which it was incorporated were to construct and operate a railroad and a railroad and wagon bridge from a point in the city of Leavenworth to a point opposite in the State of Missouri, and to purchase the rights and franchises necessary to consummate the project.