Kansas City and Olathe Electric Railway 1903

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

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, and Olathe, Kansas. When it began operation in 1908, it ran from Rosedale, southwest through South Park to

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, then west to

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. 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

and

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Kansas City, Kansas Public Library HistoryA Splendid Ride: The Streetcars of Kansas City, 1870-1957
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