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The Colorado Pacific Railroad is a shortline railroad operating on 122 miles (196 km) of former Missouri Pacific Railroad trackage in southeast Colorado. It interchanges with Union Pacific and BNSF at North Avondale Junction near Boone, and with the Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad at Towner. It is sometimes referred to as the Towner Line or the ...
The Kiowa, Hardtner and Pacific was incorporated September 2, 1908, under the general laws of Kansas, for the purpose of constructing and operating a railroad from Kiowa, Kans., to Trinidad, Colo., about 350 miles, The date of organization was not determined.
Eads has been the seat of Kiowa County since 1901. [3] Eads was established in 1887 as a railroad town and was named after James Buchanan Eads, a structural engineer with the Missouri Pacific Railroad, who designed and built the Eads Bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis in 1874 and went on to design and build the system of levees on the Mississippi Delta which made the river ...
Colorado Central Railroad: Colorado Railroad: 1938 1957 N/A Colorado Railroad: CB&Q: 1906 1930 Colorado and Southern Railway: Colorado Railway: DRGW: 1883 1888 Denver and Rio Grande Railroad: Colorado Central Railroad: CB&Q: 1869 1890 Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf Railway: Colorado Central and Pacific Railroad: CB&Q: 1866 1869 Colorado Central ...
No injuries were reported after a train hit an all-terrain vehicle stuck on the tracks near Mendon, Missouri, causing a fire. Railroad schedules delayed after train hits ATV, causing fiery crash ...
Toward that goal, the AT&SF incorporated The Kiowa, Chickasha and Fort Smith Railway Company in Kansas on July 13, 1899, which then built a line from Pauls Valley to what became the town of Lindsay, a distance of 24.2 miles, in the 1901-1903 timeframe. [2] The line’s first operation was in December of 1903. [2]
Train tracks at Blanton, Oklahoma Blanton, Oklahoma, to Kiowa, Kansas - 1996 (57.69 miles or 92.84 kilometres) On December 23, 1996, the Surface Transportation Board approved the K & E Railway (K&E) request to abandon its entire 57.69-mile rail line between milepost 0.60, at or near Kiowa, Kansas, and milepost 56.98, at or near Blanton, Garfield County, northwest of Enid, Oklahoma.
Chivington is an unincorporated community in Kiowa County, Colorado, United States. [1] The Chivington post office operated from October 24, 1887, until January 1, 1991. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The U.S. Post Office at Eads ( ZIP Code 81036) now serves Chivington postal addresses.