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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.
Transport between Bucklin and Wilroads stopped in Autumn 2005 due to a lack of traffic, it has only operated eight trains since September 2000. The Boot Hill and Western Railway Company acquired part ownership of the track in September 2000 from the previous owner, the Dodge City Ford and Bucklin Railroad Company.
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 ...
Three railroads serve Dodge City: the La Junta Subdivision of the BNSF Railway, which runs east-west; the main line of the Cimarron Valley Railroad of which Dodge City is the northeastern terminus; and the Boot Hill and Western Railway of which the city is the northwestern terminus.
The Kansas Pacific: a study in railroad promotion (Arno Press, 1981). Petrowski, William R. "The Kansas Pacific Railroad in the Southwest." Arizona and the West (1969): 129–146. in JSTOR; Petrowski, William R. "Kansas City to Denver to Cheyenne: Pacific Railroad Construction Costs and Profits." Business History Review 48#2 (1974): 206–224 ...
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.
The railroad of The Dodge City and Cimarron Valley Railway Company, hereinafter called the Dodge City and Cimarron Valley Railway, is a single-track line located entirely within the State of Kansas and extending from Dodge City to Elkhart, a distance of 119.403 miles.
The Santa Fe began operating a Dodge City–Great Bend–Newton round trip, trains 311/312, which connected with the Chicagoan and Kansas Cityan at Newton in both directions. [24] The Chicagoan began making local stops east of Kansas City only for passengers coming from train 312. [25]