• The Kansas Pacific Railway (KP) was a historic railroad company that operated in the western United States in the late 19th century. It was a federally...
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    Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited, doing business as CPKC (known as Canadian Pacific Railway Limited until 2023), is a Canadian railway holding company...
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    under the name Union Pacific Railroad (UP), Southern Branch, it came to serve an extensive rail network in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri. In 1988...
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  • The Canadian Pacific Kansas City Police Service (CPKC Police Service), formerly known as Canadian Pacific Police Service (CPPS), is a railway police service...
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    Canadian Pacific Kansas City. Arthur Stilwell began construction on the first line of what would eventually become the Kansas City Southern Railway in 1887...
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    the Missouri Pacific Railroad, the Western Pacific Railroad, the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. In...
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  • company retaining the Union Pacific name. Railways portal Kansas Pacific Railway Union Pacific Railroad Trainweb: Denver Pacific history Rocky Mountain News:...
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    slaves of the South. Heading west in 1867, Palmer helped build the Kansas Pacific Railway. He befriended a young English doctor, Dr. William Abraham Bell...
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    Bible (Luke 3:1), meaning "grassy plains". In 1867, the Kansas Pacific Railway (Union Pacific) pushed westward through Abilene. In the same year, Joseph...
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    predecessor of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The first section of track was completed in 1852; in 1865, it was the first railroad in Kansas City, after construction...
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  • transcontinental railroad Central Pacific Railroad Union Pacific Railroad Western Pacific Railroad (1862–1870) Kansas Pacific Railway Co. v. Dunmeyer A court case...
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    Class I railway incorporated in 1881. The railway is owned by Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited, known until 2023 as Canadian Pacific Railway Limited...
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  • build the Kansas Pacific Railway in the early 1860s just prior to the American Civil War. In the film the building of the railroad in Kansas is opposed...
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    The Kansas City Terminal Railway (reporting mark KCT) is a Class III terminal railroad that serves as a joint operation of the trunk railroads that serve...
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    by the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 as one of the branches of the Union Pacific Railroad, it was left with a hanging end at Waterville, Kansas, when the...
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    track in the U.S. and Mexico. Its primary U.S. holding was the Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS), a Class I railroad that operated about 3,984 route miles...
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    Union Pacific Railroad Eastern Division (later Kansas Pacific Railway) to identify and map a southern route for a railroad connection between Kansas and...
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  • Colorado Pacific Railroad (CXR) Garden City Western Railway (GCW) Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) Kansas City Terminal Railway (KCT) Kansas and Oklahoma...
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    Paul & Pacific Railroad Chicago, Missouri and Western Railway Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City Railway Chicago...
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  • Kansas Pacific R. Co. v. Dunmeyer, 113 U.S. 629 (1885), was a writ of error to the Supreme Court of Kansas. The action was brought in that court on a covenant...
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    CDOT leased the line to the Colorado, Kansas & Pacific Railway. In 2004, the lease was transferred to V&S Railway. However, V&S ownership appeared to locals...
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    and Pacific; Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific; Kansas City Southern; Missouri-Kansas-Texas; Missouri Pacific; St. Louis-San Francisco; Union Pacific; and...
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    the smaller Kansas Pacific Railway based in Kansas City. He merged the two into the Union Pacific Railway in 1880, giving the Union Pacific new markets...
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    mile south of present-day Wilson in 1865. Three years later, the Kansas Pacific Railway built Wilson Station, named after the surrounding township, at the...
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  • The Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway (“KO&G”) had at its height 310.5 miles of track from Denison, Texas through Oklahoma to Baxter Springs, Kansas. Its...
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  • Canadian Pacific Railway, itself a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited (CPKC), owns or owned several subsidiary railways Many of these subsidiaries...
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    original Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P RW, sometimes called Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway) (reporting marks CRI&P, RI, ROCK)...
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    Chisholm Trail (category Historic trails and roads in Kansas)
    Territory. They continued north to the rail head of the Kansas Pacific Railway in Abilene, Kansas, where the cattle would be sold and shipped eastward....
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    States Illinois Central Railroad Kansas Pacific Railway Northern Pacific Railway Pacific Railroad Acts Union Pacific Railroad Public Land Survey System...
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    Fred Harvey (entrepreneur) (category People from Leavenworth, Kansas)
    Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe Railway, the Kansas Pacific Railway, the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, and the Terminal Railroad...
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