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The city of Moberly was born of a railroad auction on September 27, 1866. The county incorporated the town in 1868 with a board of trustees. The same year that the Wabash Railroad, St. Louis & Pacific Railway shops were finished in Moberly, [11] [12] the city entered a charter into state record and incorporated. [13]
Gary Branch- a former Wabash Railroad rail line which was passed on to Norfolk and Western. Formerly known as Montpelier−Chicago−4th District and Gary District. Part of the defunct Toledo to Landers rail corridor. [7] [9] [42] [32] Maumee District- a former Wabash Railroad rail line which was passed on to Norfolk and Western.
1886 system map. The source of the Wabash name was the Wabash River, a 475-mile (764 km)-long river in the eastern United States that flows southwest from northwest Ohio near Fort Recovery, across northern Indiana to Illinois where it forms the southern portion of the Illinois-Indiana border before draining into the Ohio River, of which it is the largest northern tributary.
Springfield Western and Southern Railroad of Missouri: SLSF: 1875 1877 Springfield and Western Missouri Railroad: Tarkio Valley Railroad: CB&Q: 1880 1900 Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad: Tebo and Neosho Railroad: MKT: 1860 1872 Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway: Terminal Railroad of St. Louis: 1880 1889 Terminal Railroad ...
The original St. Charles Bridge, built in 1871 to carry the North Missouri Railroad, was the first bridge in St. Charles County. The bridge saw multiple incidents during its lifetime. In 1870, a steel column collapsed during construction resulting in the deaths of eighteen bridge workers.
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson and state transportation officials on Thursday outlined options for spending the first chunk of $50 million budgeted for railroad crossing improvements in an effort to ...
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Kirksville's other railroad, the Wabash Railroad, became the Norfolk and Western Railway in October, 1964. This north-south line later became the Norfolk Southern Railway in 1982 after N&W merged with Southern Railway. In April 1992, the last official NS train ran the line between Albia, IA and Moberly, MO as the railroad announced it would ...