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Kansas City Union Station. The railway was created after a series of floods in 1903, 1904, and 1908 inundated the West Bottoms each time and temporarily closed the Union Depot there. The 12 original trunk railways of the city at the time joined to build the new Kansas City Union Station and to coordinate the bridges and switches that serve the ...
Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railway: Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railway: SLSF: 1901 1928 St. Louis – San Francisco Railway: Kansas City, Fort Scott and Springfield Railroad: SLSF: 1888 1888 Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad: Kansas City, Lawrence and Southern Railroad: ATSF: 1879 1880 Kansas City, Lawrence and ...
Pages in category "Passenger rail transportation in Kansas" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In 1996, residents in five counties throughout the Kansas City metropolitan area in both Kansas and Missouri approved the so-called "bistate tax", a 1/8 of a cent sales tax, [11] part of which helped to fund just under half of the $250 million restoration of Union Station. [10]
The Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad was originally created on May 29, 1980, after the demise of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad on March 31, 1980. [1] A subsidiary of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (MKT), it operated 767 miles (1,234 km) of the former Rock Island's Herington, Kansas, to Fort Worth, Texas, North-South line, as a cooperative venture with local shippers ...
The MidSouth Rail Corporation (reporting mark MSRC) is a railroad line operated by Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) as a result of the January 1, 1994, acquisition; KCS began operating over MidSouth's line on January 11, 1994. [1]
The Port of Kansas City Kansas City, the second-largest rail hub and third-largest trucking hub in the country, is on marine highway M-70, which extends as far as Pittsburgh and intersects M-55 at St. Louis, allowing shipping to New Orleans , Chicago , Minneapolis and connections to major cities all over the eastern United States. [ 1 ]
Kansas City Southern de México, S.A. de C.V. (reporting mark KCSM) is a Mexican railroad and operating subsidiary of Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited (CPKC). The company was founded in 1996 as Transportación Ferroviaria Mexicana (reporting mark TFM), a joint venture between KCS and Transportación Maritima Mexicana after the companies won a concession from the Mexican government to ...