Kansas City Terminal Railway
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The Kansas City Terminal Railway is Class III railroad that serves as
joint operation of the trunk railroads that serve the Kansas City
metropolitan area, the country's second largest rail hub.
The Railway was created after a 1903 flood in the West Bottoms closed
the Union Depot there. The 12 original trunk railways of the city at
the time joined together to build the new Union Station (Kansas City)
and to coordinate the bridges and switches that serve the city.
Under an Interstate Commerce Commission order, the railway operated
and then oversaw the liquidation of the Rock Island Line from 1979 to
1980.
The railway owns and dispatches 85 miles of track (25 in Kansas and 60
in Missouri) and has no locomotives or freight cars. It no longer owns
Union Station. It has subcontracted its switching operations to the
Kansas City Southern and its maintenance operations to BNSF.
The original trunk railroads that were owners of the Kansas City
Terminal were the
Alton Railroad
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Chicago Great Western Railway
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
Kansas City Southern Railway
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad
Missouri Pacific Railroad
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway
Union Pacific Railroad
Wabash Railroad
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