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Missouri And Western Railway
The Missouri and Western Railway (M&WR) completed a main line from Pierce City, Missouri through Sacoxie and Joplin, Missouri to Oswego, Kansas Oswego is a city in and the county seat of Labette County, Kansas, United States, and situated along the Neosho River. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 1,668. History Oswego is located on the site of an Osage village calle ..., with a branch line north from Joplin to Oronogo, Missouri, with a total length of 83.23 miles. The trackage was finished in 1879, and the company was purchased by the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (Frisco) the same year. History The M&WR, formed in 1875, was a consolidation of other railway companies under common ownership, namely the Pierce City and Kansas Railroad Company, a Missouri corporation, and the Oswego and State Line Railroad Company, a Kansas corporation, both formed earlier in 1875. Those companies had been created to take over the franchises and properties of the Memphis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Missouri
Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee): Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas to the south and Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska to the west. In the south are the Ozarks, a forested highland, providing timber, minerals, and recreation. The Missouri River, after which the state is named, flows through the center into the Mississippi River, which makes up the eastern border. With more than six million residents, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 19th-most populous state of the country. The largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City, Springfield, Missouri, Springfield and Columbia, Missouri, Columbia; the Capital city, capital is Jefferson City, Missouri, Jefferson City. Humans have inhabited w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas
Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named after the Kansas River, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native Americans who lived along its banks. The tribe's name (natively ') is often said to mean "people of the (south) wind" although this was probably not the term's original meaning. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison. The first Euro-American settlement in Kansas occurred in 1827 at Fort Leavenworth. The pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery debate. Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierce City, Missouri
Pierce City, formerly Peirce City, is a city in southwest Lawrence and northwest Barry counties, in southwest Missouri, United States. The population was 1,292 at the 2010 census. In 2010, the town annexed property along Route 97 into Barry County to a point just north of U.S. Route 60. It was estimated to be 1,309 by the City of Pierce City as of July 1, 2019. History There was once a small village called St. Martha about two and a half miles west of Pierce City. It was surveyed for William Robert Wild on Section 30, Pierce Township, May 9, 1870. Wild committed suicide there on June 8, 1870. Nothing remains of the village. Founding and spelling Pierce City was laid out in 1870 as a stop on the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. It was originally spelled Peirce City, named for Andrew Peirce, Jr. of Boston, president of the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway. The ''Pierce'' spelling was used erroneously by the United States Postal Service and adopted officially in the 1930s.; cite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarcoxie, Missouri
Sarcoxie is a city in Jasper County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,406 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Joplin, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Sarcoxie was platted in the early 1830s, and it was originally called Centerville from its location upon Center Creek. In 1839, the settlement was renamed in honor of Sarcoxie, a chief of the Delaware Indians who had settled near a spring in the present town limits. Sarcoxie was once the strawberry capital of the world and still is the peony capital of the world, and home to Gilbert H. Wild, one of America's largest growers of daylilies, iris, and peonies. Sarcoxie once had its own currency that had a picture of a strawberry on one side. During the start of the Civil War in 1861, Franz Sigel's independent command passed through Sarcoxie on June 28 before attempting to attack the separated commands of Sterling Price and Missouri Governor and General Claiborne Fox Jackson. Price was rumored to be at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joplin, Missouri
Joplin is a city in Jasper County, Missouri, Jasper and Newton County, Missouri, Newton counties in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Missouri. The bulk of the city is in Jasper County, while the southern portion is in Newton County. Joplin is the largest city located within both Jasper and Newton Counties - even though it is not the county seat of either county (Carthage, Missouri, Carthage is the seat of Jasper County while Neosho, Missouri, Neosho is the seat of Newton County). With a population of 51,762 as of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, Joplin is the List of cities in Missouri, 13th most-populous city in the state. The city covers an area of 35.69 square miles (92.41 km2) on the outer edge of the Ozarks, Ozark Mountains. Joplin is the main hub of the three-county Joplin-Miami, MO-OK MSA, Joplin-Miami, Missouri-Oklahoma Metro area, which is home to 210,077 people making it the 5th largest metropolitan area in Missouri. In May 2011, the city was 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oswego, Kansas
Oswego is a city in and the county seat of Labette County, Kansas, United States, and situated along the Neosho River. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 1,668. History Oswego is located on the site of an Osage village called No tse Wa spe, which means "Heart Stays" or more loosely translated, "Quiet Heart."Burns, Louis Francis, A History of the Osage People, pages 58-59. Jesuit Missionaries from Osage Mission (now St. Paul, Kansas) who worked among the Osages called the village "Little Town," probably because the band of Osages who lived in the village were of the "Little Osage" division of the Osage People. More specifically, the Osage Village of Little Town was described as "Little Town Above" by the Jesuits, to distinguish it from another village, which was sometimes located just to the east of Little Town, called "Little Town Below." While Osage villages were moved quite often (according to weather, hunting conditions, and sanitary conditions) Little ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oronogo, Missouri
Oronogo is a city in Jasper County, Missouri, United States. The population was 2,558 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Joplin, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Oronogo was platted in 1856. The name, according to local tradition, came about when it was found that the previous name, "Minersville" was already taken. At a public meeting to change the name, after considering many possibilities, a man in the back blurted out "its Ore or no go", referring to the mining operations. Elaborating on that, Colonel J. M. Young, suggested substituting the Spanish word "Oro" for ore, and the dropping the "or" to make the word euphonious. He pronounced it "Oronogo" and the audience accepted the name. Geography Oronogo is located at (37.190202, -94.467289). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 2,381 people, 772 households, and 646 familie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Missouri Railroads
The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Missouri. Common freight carriers *Arkansas and Missouri Railroad (AM) * Affton Terminal Services Railroad (AT) * Belton, Grandview and Kansas City Railroad (BGKX) *BNSF Railway (BNSF) * Burlington Junction Railway (BJRY) *Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) through subsidiary Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad (DME) *Central Midland Railway (CMR) operates Missouri Central Railroad (MOC) * Columbia Terminal Railroad (CT) * FTRL Railway (FTRL) *Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) *Kansas City Terminal Railway (KCT) * Kaw River Railroad (KAW) * Missouri North Central Railroad (MNC) *Missouri and Northern Arkansas Railroad (MNA) *Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) *Ozark Valley Railroad (OVRR) * Pemiscot County Port Railroad (PCPA) * SEMO Port Railroad (SE) *South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad (SKOL) *Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis (TRRA) *Union Pacific Railroad (UP) including subsidiary Southern Illinois and Missouri Bridge Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct Missouri Railroads
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Kansas Railroads
The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Kansas. Common freight carriers *Blackwell Northern Gateway Railroad (BNG) * Blue Rapids Railway (BRRY) * Boot Hill and Western Railway (BHWY) *BNSF Railway (BNSF) *Cimarron Valley Railroad (CVR) * Colorado Pacific Railroad (CPRR) * Garden City Western Railway (GCW) *Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) *Kansas City Terminal Railway (KCT) *Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad (KO) * Kaw River Railroad (KAW) *Kyle Railroad (KYLE) *Missouri and Northern Arkansas Railroad (MNA) *South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad (SKOL) **Operates the Kansas Eastern Railroad (KE) *Union Pacific Railroad (UP) **Operates the Blue Rapids Railway and Wichita Terminal Association *V&S Railway (VSR) * Wichita Union Terminal Railway (WUT) Passenger carriers *Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad *Amtrak (AMTK) *Midland Railway * Baldwin City & Southern Railroad (LLG) Private *New Century AirCenter Railroad Defunct railroads During World War II, less popular routes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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