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St. Louis and Fort Scott Railroad: RI: 1870 1871 Missouri Central Railway: St. Louis and Gulf Railway: SLSF: 1902 1904 St. Louis, Memphis and Southeastern Railroad: St. Louis and Hannibal Railroad: SL&H, SLH 1917 1944 N/A St. Louis and Hannibal Railway: 1885 1917 St. Louis and Hannibal Railroad: St. Louis, Hannibal and Kansas City Railway: 1891 ...
When the trackage was actually assembled between 1897 and its completion by January 1, 1900, the line only managed to run from a junction off the Missouri Pacific Railroad near Fort Smith to Paris, Arkansas, 42.879 miles, plus 8.214 miles of yard track and sidings, for a total of 52.093 miles.
The Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad was a railroad that operated in the state of Arkansas, United States, between 1853 and 1875. It came to national prominence when its bonds were the subject of a scandal involving Republican presidential candidate James G. Blaine in 1876.
James J. Hill A Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad wagon at a level crossing, circa 1900. James J. Hill joined forces with Morgan and others to gain control of the Northern Pacific. Hill formed the Northern Securities Company to consolidate the operations of the Northern Pacific with Hill's own Great Northern, but President Theodore ...
N/A Fort Smith Suburban Railway: MP: 1902 1956 Missouri Pacific Railroad: Fort Smith and Van Buren Railway: FSVB KCS: 1910 1992 Kansas City Southern Railway: Fort Smith and Van Buren Bridge Company: SLSF: 1885 1907 St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad: Fort Smith and Western Railroad: FS&W 1899 1923 Fort Smith and Western Railway: Fort Smith ...
1900 Tacoma streetcar disaster, Tacoma, Washington; 43 killed plus 65 injured [46] 1901 Buffalo Bill Show train wreck, Lexington, North Carolina; no human deaths but well over 100 show animals killed. This likely led to the demise of "Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West Show Tours.
1795–96 & 1799–1804 or '05 — In 1795, Charles Bulfinch, the architect of Boston's famed State House first employed a temporary funicular railway with specially designed dumper cars to decapitate 'the Tremont's' Beacon Hill summit and begin the decades long land reclamation projects which created most of the real estate in Boston's lower elevations of today from broad mud flats, such as ...
St. Louis, Missouri–Fort Worth, Texas [1918] 1911–1931 Southwestern Day Express: Chicago Great Western Railway: Chicago, Illinois–Kansas City, Missouri [1911] 1896–1914 Southwestern Express: New York Central and its affiliates Boston, Massachusetts–Chicago, Illinois [1905] 1888–1891; 1900–1908; 1913–1924 Southwestern Express