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A May 31, 2019 decision by the Surface Transportation Board stated: [1] On May 3, 2019, Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad d/b/a Baldwin City & Southern Railroad Company (Leavenworth), a noncarrier, filed a verified notice of exemption under 49 C.F.R. § 1150.31 to permit it to enter into an agreement to operate a rail line (the Line) owned by its corporate parent, Midland Railway ...
Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad: Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad: ATSF: 1866 1878 Lawrence and Galveston Railroad: Leavenworth, Northern and Southern Railway: ATSF: 1885 1899 Atchison, Topeka and Western Railway: Leavenworth and Olathe Railroad: MP: 1886 1887 Kansas City, Wyandotte and Northwestern Railroad
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.
On February 18, 2023, Rock Island Rail acquired the track, rolling assets and real estate from the Midland Railway Historical Association and its subsidiary the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston Railroad, doing business as the Baldwin City & Southern Railroad.
In 1867, the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad laid tracks and became the first Kansas railroad south of the Kansas River. In 1906, the Santa Fe Depot was built and today the Midland Railway offers over 20-mile round trip excursion rides to Ottawa via "Nowhere" and Norwood .
The Leavenworth, Lawrence, and Galveston (LL&G) railway was the first railroad in Kansas to be built south of the Union Pacific railroad in Lawrence, Kansas. This railway was 30 miles long and connected Lawrence to Ottawa. It was constructed primarily by Chinese railroad workers from 1867 to 1868. In 1873, the LL&G railway failed and was sold ...
The first white man to purchase property and settle here was Mr. Abe Eaton, who later sold it to the Kansas City, Lawrence & Southern Kansas Railroad which then became the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston Railway, and eventually came under the control of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, which operated the line for much of the 20th ...
Constructed by the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston Railroad Company, Lawrence to Coffeyville, Kans., 1867-Aug. 28, 1871. 142.82 Constructed by the Southern Kansas Rail Road Company, Cherryvale to Independence, Kans., year not ascertained. 9.70