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Springfield and Western Missouri Railroad: SLSF: 1877 1888 Kansas City, Springfield and Memphis Railroad: Springfield Western and Southern Railroad of Missouri: SLSF: 1875 1877 Springfield and Western Missouri Railroad: Tarkio Valley Railroad: CB&Q: 1880 1900 Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad: Tebo and Neosho Railroad: MKT ...
The Kansas City, Clinton and Springfield Railway ("KCC&SR"), also known as the Leaky Roof Railway, was a consolidation of earlier railroads.As of 1917, it had a mainline running from Ash Grove, Missouri through Clinton, Missouri to Olathe, Kansas, almost 155 miles.
Frisco 4524, another wartime 4500-series 4-8-4 coal-fired Northern-type, [52] donated to Springfield, Missouri, in November 1954, [55] now on static display at the Railroad Historical Museum inside Grant Beach Park in Springfield, and wearing the "Frisco Faster Freight" paint scheme.
The Frisco started out as the Southwest Branch (heading west-southwesterly from St. Louis) of the Pacific (later Missouri Pacific) Railroad, and was split out in 1866.. That same year, Congress incorporated the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, which would end up extending the line through Springfield and Tulsa to Sap
One connected St. Louis, Missouri, with Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the other connected Albuquerque, New Mexico, with Needles in Southern California. It was incorporated by the U.S. Congress in 1866 as a transcontinental railroad connecting Springfield, Missouri, and Van Buren, Arkansas, with California.
"Old 4524," the last of the Frisco railroad's steam locomotives, on the track before its final journey to Grant Beach Park. Published in the Springfield Leader & Press on Nov. 2, 1953.
Now, work is gearing up to remedy contamination in the nearby northwest Springfield neighborhoods. The facility at 2800 W. High St. treated railroad ties from 1907 until 2004.
The Gateway Western Railway (reporting mark GWWR) was a Class II railroad that operated 408 miles of former Chicago and Alton Railroad track between Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri. It also operated between Kansas City, Missouri, and Springfield, Illinois on the old Alton Railroad line that eventually was the Chicago, Missouri and Western ...