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Cassville and Exeter Railway: Cassville and Western Railway: 1896 1913 Cassville and Western Railroad: Central Railway of Missouri: RI: 1881 1883 St. Louis and Central Missouri Railway: Central Missouri Railway: MKT: 1885 1888 Cleveland, St. Louis and Kansas City Railway: Central North Missouri Branch of the St. Joseph and Iowa Railroad: CB&Q ...
Cassville is a city in Flat Creek Township, Barry County, Missouri, United States. According to the 2020 census , the population of Cassville was 3,190. [ 4 ] Cassville is one of the primary markets and job centers for an estimated 14,000 people living in the surrounding area. [ 5 ]
Because the railway ran only 4.8 miles one-way, the railway had to rely on steam power to travel uphill back to Exeter. Since Exeter is the highest point in the county, it was able to use gravity to coast back downhill to Cassville [7] During its economic height, a hotel called The Palace was also built in Exeter as well as a flour mill. [8]
Cover of the January 1885 issue of Railway Conductor's Monthly.. The original organization was a fraternal benefit and temperance society rather than a labor union. [3] It adopted the name "Conductors Brotherhood" at its first annual convention in 1869, and changed to the "Order of Railway Conductors of America" in 1878.
October 16 – The Miami Valley Narrow Gauge Railway officially changes its name to Miami Valley Railway.; October 24 – The British minister Thomas Wade and the Chinese viceroy Shen Baozhen sign "The Articles of Purchasing the Woosung Railway", which commits the Chinese to providing the railway's owners Tls. 285,000 in three installments over the course of the next year, after which they ...
March 3 — Construction begins on the first railway in northern India as tracks are laid between the present day locations of Allahabad and Kanpur. [4] The Royal Albert Bridge, Brunel’s last work. March 15 – While under lease to Bristol and Exeter Railway, the Somerset Central Railway is extended to Wells.
This is a list of Confederate Railroads in operation or used by the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. See also Confederate railroads in the American Civil War. At the outset of the war, the Confederacy possessed the third largest set of railroads of any nation in the world, with about 9,000 miles of railroad track. [1]
June 20 – The Great Southern and Western Railway of Ireland introduces the first of its Class 101 0-6-0 goods locomotive from its Inchicore Works, Dublin. This will become by far the most numerous of any class of locomotive to run in Ireland, with 111 built up to 1903, and almost half the class will still be in road service as Class J15 when ...