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Kansas City Southern Railway: Kansas and Nebraska Railway of Kansas: UP: 1876 1877 St. Joseph and Western Railroad: Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota Railway: MP: 1885 1891 Kansas and Colorado Pacific Railway: Kansas and Neosho Valley Railroad: SLSF: 1865 1868 Missouri River, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad: Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad: 1931 1937 N/A ...
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Union Station served a peak annual traffic of more than 670,000 passengers in 1945 at the end of World War II, but traffic quickly declined in the 1950s, and the station was closed in 1985. In 1996, a public–private partnership undertook a $250 million restoration, funded in part by a sales tax levied in Kansas and Missouri counties of the ...
Military Railway service SSI. The Military Railway Service was created in the 1920s as a reserve force of the United States Army.It had existed twice before: first as the United States Military Railroad during the American Civil War, and later as the United States Railroad Administration during World War I.
In the American Civil War, unlimited authority over all railway lines in the North was given to General McClellan.To begin with, McClellan formed a construction corps from ordinary soldiers, but he soon recognised that the lack of training of these troops for technical work meant that a specially organised corps was needed within the Union Army for technically trained civil engineers and workers.
Soviet military personnel of World War II (9 C, 1,084 P) Spanish military personnel of World War II (2 C, 13 P) T. Tongan military personnel of World War II (1 C) Y.
This is an incomplete list of military and other armed confrontations that have occurred within the boundaries of the modern US State of Kansas since European contact. The region was part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain from 1535–1679, New France from 1679–1803, and part of the United States of America 1803–present.
The AVI, as it emerged, was only a portion of a proposal in 1910 for a large network of interurban lines focusing on Wichita, running passenger and freight services mainly in competition with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and expecting to feed freight to the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway [3] and the Midland Valley Railroad, also to Wichita's new transcontinental line the Kansas ...