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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 ...
K. Kansas City and Pacific Railroad; Kansas City, Clinton and Springfield Railway; Kansas City, Kaw Valley and Western Railway; Kansas City, Lawrence and Topeka Railway
Kansas City Terminal Railway; Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad; Kansas City, Leavenworth and Western Railway; Kansas, Oklahoma Central and Southwestern ...
The AVI, as it emerged, was only a portion of a proposal in 1910 for a large network of interurban lines focusing on Wichita, running passenger and freight services mainly in competition with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and expecting to feed freight to the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway [3] and the Midland Valley Railroad, also to Wichita's new transcontinental line the Kansas ...
In 1901, the line was leased and operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, which used the name "Florence & Arkansas City Division" for it. [2] The line from Florence to El Dorado was abandoned in 1942 [3] [4] to reclaim the metal rails for the war effort during World War II because of a shortage of materials during those years.
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 ...
This article is a list of important rail yards in geographical order. These listed may be termed Classification, Freight, Marshalling, Shunting, or Switching yards, which are cultural terms generally meaning the same thing no matter which part of the world's railway traditions originated the term of art.
The company began operating January 16, 1900 as the Kansas City-Leavenworth Railway. [1] Starting from Leavenworth (then the 4th largest city in Kansas), it ran southeast through Lansing. [2] It also passed through the Wolcott community, renamed from Connor or Connor City in honor of H.W. (Herbert) Wolcott, an official of the railway.