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Re: Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs

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Subject: Re: Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs
From: Steve Edwards <sedwards4@k...>
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 20:23:20 -0600
References: <avd87e+8mjf@e...> <002901c2b5ee$b678a900$0200a8c0@m...>
gary & kathy roe wrote:

> The questions were asked:
> Where can I get information (and pictures) about the old Kansas City,
> St. Joseph & Council Bluffs, an interurban serving the cities named?
> Wasn't there are another interurban serving roughly the same
> geographical area at about the same time? If so, what was its name?
> Was any of those lines¡¯ right-of-way incorporated into the
> Burlington? Is any portion of those lines still in existence? When
> did they give up the ghost?
>
> I can help a little. According to info I have (compiled by Joseph Gross), the 
> KCStJ&CB did indeed become part of the CB&Q. I was thinking that the other 
> interurban line's name was Kansas City, Clay County & Northern; but I can't 
> locate anything on it right now.
>
> gary roe

Sounds more like the Kansas City, Clay County, and St Joseph ... found one site 
...

http://www.interurbanroad.com/index.htm

The only other railroad I can think of involving Kansas City and a northerly 
direction was the Kansas City, Wyandotte, and Northwestern which was absorbed 
into the Missouri Pacific and shut down before WW II.

Steve



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