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Kansas City and Memphis Railway and Bridge Company: SLSF: 1887 1928 St. Louis – San Francisco Railway: Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad: KCS: 1893 1900 Kansas City Southern Railway: Kansas City and Southern Railway: MP: 1882 1882 St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway: Kansas City, Springfield and Memphis Railroad: SLSF: 1883 ...
Within a week, more than 200,000 workers were on strike throughout Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and Texas. A headline in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch read "Traffic Throttled: The Gould System at the Mercy of the Knights of Labor." [2] At the time of the strike, Gould held some 12 percent of all railroad track in the U.S.
Great Railroad Strike: 1877 nationwide +100,000 1902 Anthracite coal strike: 1902 Pennsylvania: 100,000's [44]: 82 1918-20 New York City rent strikes: 1918-20 New York City: 100,000 [12] 1947 Iowa one-day general strike: 1947 Iowa: 100,000 [45] 1872 New York City Eight Hour Day Strike: 1872 New York City: 100,000 [46] 1973 Chicago construction ...
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
City Manager L.P. Cookingham outlined a plan for a modern automobile bridge designed by HNTB Corporation. A $13 million bond program financed the new span, which would be repaid through tolls.
The Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad (“KCFS&M”) was a railway system which, at its maximum extent, operated across Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Oklahoma, a total of over 881 miles (1,418 kilometres). Its predecessor company started in 1865, and another railroad assumed ownership in 1928.
In 1889 the railroad constructed another 79.2 miles from Wagoner through Inola, Claremore, Oologah and Lenapah to the Kansas state line south of Coffeyville. [1] [5] A separate company called the Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railroad, controlled by Iron Mountain (also a Missouri Pacific affiliate), built 2.41 miles of trackage in Kansas. [6]
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) will now press ahead with two 48-hour strikes at Network Rail – and 14 train companies – from Tuesday and Friday.