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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 ...
Topeka Army Airfield, Pauline, Kansas. This military facility has undergone a number of changes since its beginning. In early 1942 construction was begun on this airfield, which was used for B-29 Superfortress bomber training. Through World War II this training continued. This field was inactivated in October 1947.
The 12th Kansas Infantry was organized at Paola, Kansas, in September 1862. It mustered in for three years under the command of Colonel Charles W. Adams. The regiment was attached to Department of Kansas to June 1863. Unattached, District of the Border, Department of Missouri, to January 1864.
This list of museums in Kansas is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
German military transport was mostly dependent on trains and horses in World War II. Railway sabotage during World War II was among the difficulties. Leaders also used military trains, for example Adolf Hitler's Amerika and Hermann Goering's Asien. Trains were protected by railcars armed with anti aircraft guns or flak waggon.
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.
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 ...