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North Missouri Railroad: Missouri Southeastern Railway: SLSF: 1891 1898 Cape Girardeau, Bloomfield and Southern Railway: Missouri Southern Railroad: MS 1886 1941 N/A Missouri Valley Railroad: CB&Q: 1867 1870 Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad: Missouri Valley Park Railroad: MVP 2003 2010 Missouri and Western Railway: SLSF: 1875 ...
In 1967, the railroad operated 9,041 miles of road and 13,318 miles of track, not including DK&S, NO&LC, T&P, and its subsidiaries C&EI and Missouri-Illinois. Union Pacific Corporation, the parent company of the Union Pacific Railroad, agreed to buy the Missouri Pacific Railroad on January 8, 1980. Lawsuits filed by competing railroads delayed ...
The Iron Mountain was initially established to deliver iron ore from Iron Mountain to St. Louis, Missouri. Once owned by Henry Gudon Marquand and his brother, Frederick Marquand. 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.
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The North Missouri Railroad was incorporated on March 3, 1851. Construction commenced in 1854, with the company building westward from St. Louis, Missouri. [1] The first segment, 19 miles (31 km) from St. Louis to the east bank of the Missouri River opposite St. Charles, Missouri, opened on August 2, 1855.
The Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad was the first railroad to cross Missouri starting in Hannibal in the northeast and going to St. Joseph, Missouri, in the northwest.It is said to have carried the first letter to the Pony Express on April 3, 1860, from a train pulled behind the locomotive Missouri.
Multiple surviving buildings, structures and locations associated with the Frisco are on the National Register of Historic Places, including the St. Louis - San Francisco Railway Corporate Headquarters building;Frisco Building, 908 Olive St, St. Louis, Mo, St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Building in Joplin, Missouri, the St. Louis-San ...
The St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company (reporting mark SSW), known by its nickname of "The Cotton Belt Route" or simply "Cotton Belt", was a Class I railroad that operated between St. Louis, Missouri, and various points in the U.S. states of Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Texas from 1891 to 1980, when the system added the Rock Island's Golden State Route and operations in Kansas ...