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Western Auto Supply Company—known more widely as Western Auto—was a specialty retail chain of stores that supplied automobile parts and accessories operating approximately 1,200 stores across the United States. Started in 1909 in Kansas City, Missouri, by George Pepperdine and Don Abnor Davis, Pepperdine would later found Pepperdine ...
Kansas City, Topeka and Western Railroad: Kansas Midland Railway: SLSF: 1886 1900 Kansas Midland Railroad: Kansas and Missouri Railroad: SLSF: 1882 1888 Kansas City, Fort Scott and Springfield Railroad: Kansas and Missouri Railway and Terminal Company: KM KCS: 1922 1992 Kansas City Southern Railway: Kansas and Nebraska Railway of Kansas: UP ...
The Strong City Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Depot is a historic railway station at 102 W. Topeka Avenue in Strong City, Kansas. The station was built by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF) in 1913 to replace the city's previous station. The ATSF first built a line through the city in 1872, bypassing the county seat of Cottonwood Falls.
On December 1, 2008, US 40, along with US 24 and US 73, was rerouted south along K-7 west of Kansas City to the intersection with I-70. Before this date, US 40 and US 24 continued along State Avenue to College Parkway before turning right to follow Turner Diagonal for 1 ⁄ 2 mile (800 m) where US 40 joined Interstate 70 for the duration of its ...
The city of Topeka, Kansas, wants people to move there — and it has been offering economic incentives to attract new residents and workers, including Latino and immigrant families.. Under the ...
When it opened in 1989, [1] Heartland Motorsports Park was the first new auto racing facility to be built in the United States for 20 years. Its facilities include a road-race course with 4 possible configurations (ranging from 1.8 to 2.5 miles or 2.9 to 4.0 kilometres in length), a 3 ⁄ 8 mi (0.6 km) clay oval, off-road course and a 1 ⁄ 4 mi (0.4 km) drag strip.
The Kansas Pacific: a study in railroad promotion (Arno Press, 1981). Petrowski, William R. "The Kansas Pacific Railroad in the Southwest." Arizona and the West (1969): 129–146. in JSTOR; Petrowski, William R. "Kansas City to Denver to Cheyenne: Pacific Railroad Construction Costs and Profits." Business History Review 48#2 (1974): 206–224 ...
The line was sold in March 1905, and was renamed as the Kansas City Western Railway. [1] While a projected spur to Topeka never happened, the line in the 1910s was busy enough to average 1.2 million passengers a year. [1] Further, freight-hauling services were added to the mix, the principal cargo being milk carried to creameries in Kansas City ...