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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 Central Corridor is a rail line operated by the Union Pacific Railroad from near Winnemucca, Nevada to Denver, Colorado in the western United States. [1] The line was created after the merger with the Southern Pacific Transportation Company by combining portions of lines built by former competitors.
The Colorado Department of Transportation purchased the line from UP in 1998 for $10.2 million in hopes of finding a short-line operator to serve farmers and others in small towns along the route. [4] In 2000, CDOT leased the line to the Colorado, Kansas & Pacific Railway. In 2004, the lease was transferred to V&S Railway. [5]
A southbound Santa Fe coal train underneath Pikes Peak, on the Colorado Joint Line out of Denver, April 1983. The first set of tracks in the area were laid by the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad in 1871. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway laid their tracks parallel to the D&RG in 1888.
Kansas–Colorado Railroad: 1908 1910 Colorado–Kansas Railway: Kansas Pacific Railway: UP: 1869 1880 Union Pacific Railway: Laramie, Hahns Peak and Pacific Railway: UP: 1911 1914 Colorado, Wyoming and Eastern Railway: Laramie, North Park and Western Railroad: UP: 1924 1951 Union Pacific Railroad: Larimer and Routt County Railway: UP: 1907 1914
In June 2005, the Denver Rock Island Railroad filed with the Surface Transportation Board a verified notice of exemption under 49 CFR 1150.41 to acquire from Union Pacific Railroad and operate rail lines commonly known as the Stock Yard Lead and the North Washington Industrial Track in Denver and Adams Counties, Colorado. The Stock Yard Lead ...
Kansas City, Emporia and Southern Railway: ATSF: 1882 1901 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Missouri River, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad: SLSF: 1879 1888 Kansas City, Fort Scott and Springfield Railroad: Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad: SLSF: 1888 1901 Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railway: Kansas City, Fort Scott and ...
Kansas City Southern (KCS) was a transportation holding company with railroad investments in the United States, Mexico, and Panama and operated from 1887 to 2023. The KCS rail network included about 7,299 miles (11,747 km) of track in the U.S. and Mexico.