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In 1887, the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway built a north–south branch line from Herington through Wellington to Caldwell. [8] Creditors foreclosed on it 1891 and the railroad was taken over by Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad , which shut down in 1980 and reorganized as Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad , merged in 1988 with ...
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 ...
It was named in honor of Charles Sumner, a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1811–74), who was a strong advocate of Kansas becoming a free state. In 1887, the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway built a branch line north–south from Herington to Caldwell . [ 4 ]
Southern Kansas Railroad: ATSF: 1871 1879 Kansas City, Lawrence and Southern Railroad: Southern Kansas Railway: ATSF: 1883 1899 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Southern Kansas and Panhandle Railroad: ATSF: 1886 1890 Chicago, Kansas and Western Railroad: Southern Kansas and Western Railroad: ATSF: 1879 1880 Kansas City, Lawrence and ...
1910 FW&WV (Indiana Railroad) collision, Kingsland, Indiana; 35-40 killed. Worst interurban Trolley disaster in U.S history [77] [78] 1910 Wellington avalanche, Wellington, Washington; 96 killed. The worst avalanche in U.S. history destroyed two trains and a rail depot [79] [80]
The tracks Kansas & Oklahoma RR operate on also includes portions of the former Missouri Pacific Kansas City to Pueblo main line in Western Kansas and Eastern Colorado. KO owns 820 miles (1,320 km) of track, and another 84 miles (135 km) is accounted for in trackage rights .
Walter Chrysler's father, Henry (Hank) Chrysler, was a Canadian, of German, English and Dutch ancestry. He was an American Civil War veteran who was a locomotive engineer for the Kansas Pacific Railway and its successor, the Union Pacific Railroad. [4] Walter's mother was born in Rocheport, Missouri, and was also of German ancestry. [5]
Riverdale is an unincorporated community in Sumner County, Kansas, United States. [1] It is located about 6 miles southwest of Belle Plaine at the intersection of N Sand Plum Rd and 77th Ave N, or west of U.S. Route 81 next to the railroad. [1]