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Acquired through purchase from trustees acting for the Campbell Lumber Co., Apr. 12, 1906; constructed by the Campbell Lumber Co., Campbell, Mo., to West Kennett, Ark., about 1895 28.00 (This property was operated as a private log road by the Campbell & St. Francis Valley Railroad Co., an unincorporated organization, from 1895 to April, 1906.)
The railroad's predecessor companies in St. Louis date to 1797, when the town was still part of Spanish Upper Louisiana. James Piggott was granted a license to operate a ferry between St. Louis and Illinoistown (now East St. Louis, Illinois). In 1819, Piggott's heirs sold the ferry to Samuel Wiggins, who operated the service with eight horses ...
The St. Louis, Council Bluffs and Omaha was incorporated under the general laws of Missouri and Iowa, through filing with the secretaries of the State of Missouri, October 7, 1870, and Iowa, December 19, 1870, articles of consolidation dated September 20, 1870, for the purpose of consolidating the property, rights, and franchises of the St ...
Instead, the company acquired trackage rights to operate its trains over Missouri Pacific Railroad's (now Union Pacific) parallel St. Louis to Kansas City mainline. SSW never ran a single through-train across Missouri since it acquired the line in 1980, and kept the far eastern segment between Overland, Missouri, to Owensville, Missouri open to ...
Ewing Yard with some SD-400 and SD-460 cars. Metro Transit, the public transit operator in the Greater St. Louis area, operates two rail yards for the MetroLink light rail system, four bus depots for MetroBus and Metro Call-A-Ride services, and one streetcar barn for the Loop Trolley.
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The property owned by the carrier consists of a main line extending from East St. Louis to Troy, a distance of 18.886 miles. CORPORATE HISTORY The carrier was incorporated August 16, 1899, under the general laws of the State of Illinois, for the purpose of constructing or acquiring a railroad from East St. Louis, Ill., to a point at or near ...
The company's line connected with the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis and the Alton and Southern Railroad in East St. Louis, Illinois. The MRS accessed the Alton and Southern Railroad using trackage rights over the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis via the MacArthur Bridge. [3]