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The line was merged with the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway (SLIMS) and reorganized as the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1917. Missouri Pacific later acquired or gained a controlling interest in other lines in Texas, including the Gulf Coast Lines, International-Great Northern Railroad, and the Texas and Pacific Railway.
[23] [13] The route followed much of the Stephens–Townsend–Murphy Party 1844 route and John C. Frémont's 1845-1846 route through the sierra crest [26] made infamous by the Donner Party, [14] rather than the Madeline Pass route mapped by the Pacific Railroad Surveys, [3] or the intermediate Beckwourth Pass on account of political factors ...
They were forced out through Jay Gould's railroad monopoly. [1] [2] In 1883 the railway was acquired by Jay Gould, becoming part of a 9,547-mile (15,364 km) system. On May 12, 1917, the company was officially merged into the Missouri Pacific Railroad, which in turn was merged into the Union Pacific Railroad between 1982 and 1997.
U.S. Route 180 is an east–west United States highway. Like many three-digit routes, US 180 no longer meets its "parent", US 80 . US 80 was decommissioned west of Mesquite, Texas , and was replaced in Texas by Interstate 20 and Interstate 10 resulting in U.S. 180 being 57 miles longer than U.S. 80.
In 1889 the railroad constructed another 79.2 miles from Wagoner through Inola, Claremore, Oologah and Lenapah to the Kansas state line south of Coffeyville. [1] [5] A separate company called the Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railroad, controlled by Iron Mountain (also a Missouri Pacific affiliate), built 2.41 miles of trackage in Kansas. [6]
In 1963, No. 765, renumbered as 767, was donated to the city of Fort Wayne, Indiana, where it sat on display at the Lawton Park, while the real No. 767 was scrapped at Chicago in 1964. In the early 1970s, the newly formed Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society (FWRHS) restored No. 765 and operated it in main line excursion service.
Between St. Louis and Kansas City, the train ran on the Wabash Railroad, then on the Norfolk & Western which leased the Wabash in 1964. This part of the run became a separate train on June 19, 1968, retaining the City of St Louis name until its discontinuance in April 1969; after June 1968 the Union Pacific train was the City of Kansas City ...
Originally chartered as subsidiaries of the Frisco Railroad, the system became independent in 1916 and was purchased by the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1925. [ 3 ] The parent company of the independent Gulf Coast Lines was the New Orleans, Texas and Mexico Railway , incorporated in Louisiana on February 28, 1916, which bought the property and ...