The Kansas City and Olathe Electric Railway was a electric
interurban
The Interurban (or radial railway in Europe and Canada) is a type of electric railway, with streetcar-like electric self-propelled rail cars which run within and between cities or towns. They were very prevalent in North America between 1900 a ...
rail line between
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City (abbreviated KC or KCMO) is the largest city in Missouri by population and area. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 508,090 in 2020, making it the 36th most-populous city in the United States. It is the central ...
, and
Olathe, Kansas. When it began operation in 1908, it ran from
Rosedale, southwest through South Park to
Merriam Merriam can refer to:
People
* Alan P. Merriam (1923–1980), American ethnomusicologist
* Charles Edward Merriam (1874–1953), American political scientist
* Charles W. Merriam (1877–1961), American insurance businessman and politician
* Clinto ...
, then west to
Shawnee
The Shawnee are an Algonquian-speaking indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands. In the 17th century they lived in Pennsylvania, and in the 18th century they were in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, with some bands in Kentucky a ...
.
The road was abandoned in 1934.
It was also known as the Kansas City, Lawrence and Topeka Railway (because it originally was supposed to go to those cities), the Hocker's Grove Line for developer
Richard W. Hocker (it now is usually referred to as the Hocker Line) and the Kansas City, Merriam and Shawnee Line (it was to stir development in
Merriam Merriam can refer to:
People
* Alan P. Merriam (1923–1980), American ethnomusicologist
* Charles Edward Merriam (1874–1953), American political scientist
* Charles W. Merriam (1877–1961), American insurance businessman and politician
* Clinto ...
and
Shawnee, Kansas
Shawnee is a city in Johnson County, Kansas, United States. It is the seventh most populous municipality in the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 67,311.
History
Territory of Kansas
Before ...
).
See also
*
List of interurbans
References
External links
Kansas City, Kansas Public Library HistoryA Splendid Ride: The Streetcars of Kansas City, 1870-1957
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Kansas City interurban railways
Transportation in Johnson County, Kansas
Transportation in Olathe, Kansas
Railway companies established in 1903
1934 disestablishments in Kansas
Defunct Kansas railroads
American companies established in 1903
1903 establishments in Kansas
American companies disestablished in 1934