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Dodge City's importance as a division point on the railroad, with yards, a roundhouse and shops, and as the last significant rest stop for westbound passengers before a large undeveloped region, led the railroad to build a large structure with a Harvey House lunchroom and dining room.
It previously had a role in the interconnection with the Bucklin Union Pacific Railroad. By 2024, the official Kansas Department of Transportation’s Kansas Railroad Map 2024 was showing the Boot Hill and Western as a 10-mile railway, with 9 miles running east-southeast from Dodge City to Wilroads, and the line extending in the same direction ...
Dodge City and Cimarron Valley Railway: ATSF: 1911 Still exists as a nonoperating subsidiary of the BNSF Railway: Dodge City, Ford and Bucklin Railroad: DCFB 1989 2000 Boot Hill and Western Railway: Dodge City, Montezuma and Trinidad Railway: RI: 1887 1893 N/A Eastern Oklahoma Railway: ATSF: 1899 1907 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ...
The Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway (CK&N) was formed in 1885 and Marcus Low, a former attorney for the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, was its president. [1] The CRI&P advanced the CK&N about twenty-five million dollars to begin construction in exchange for nearly all of the CK&N's stock.
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Dodge City is a city in and the county seat of Ford County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 27,788. [6] [7] It was named after nearby Fort Dodge, which was named in honor of Grenville Dodge.
The V&S Railway (reporting mark VSR) is a shortline railroad that operates two disconnected lines in the U.S. state of Kansas.It is affiliated with A&K Railroad Materials.The company acquired its first line, a former Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway line between Medicine Lodge and a BNSF Railway junction at Attica, from the Central Kansas Railway in 2000.