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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.
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.
Milan station, also known as the Quincy, Missouri & Pacific Railroad Depot, is a historic train station located at Milan, Sullivan County, Missouri, United States. It was built in 1882 by the Quincy, Missouri, and Pacific Railroad. It is a one-story, rectangular frame building with American Craftsman design elements. It features a hipped roof ...
Nut Tree Railroad; Pacific Coast Railroad in Santa Margarita; Pacific Southwest Railway Museum; Placerville & Sacramento Valley Railroad, oldest railroad west of the Mississippi [1] Port of LA Waterfront Red Car, a rebuilt part of the original Pacific Electric Railway system (Closed in 2015) Poway–Midland Railroad
The route was winding, the creek prone to flooding but the land acquisition was easiest along the Creek. When the interurban line stopped running in the 1930s, the Road Rock was reconstructed on the railroad right-of-way for a direct shot into St. Charles. The former route was named Old St. Charles Rock Road, now Boenker Road.
Route 180 Spur south (Pennsylvania Avenue) Northern terminus of Route 180 Spur: Wellston: 9.341: 15.033: Route U north (Lucas–Hunt Road) Southern terminus of Route U: City of St. Louis: 11.540: 18.572: Kingshighway Boulevard: 13.895: 22.362: Route D (Page Avenue / Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard) Eastern terminus; Dr. MLK Jr. Boulevard ...
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 ...
[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 ...