Railroads in Kansas

St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad

St. Louis, San Francisco, Wichita and Western Railroad

Thirty-Fifth Parallel Project

ROUTE:

Missouri

St. Louis (1853), Pacific (Franklin)(1858), Cuba (1859), Rolla (1866), Arlington (1866), Lebanon (1869), Springfield (1870), Aurora (1870), Monett (1870), Pierce City (1870), Carthage (1872)

Kansas

Cherokee County

Crestline, Livingston, Columbus (1877), Rockwell, Hallowell, Messer

Labette County

Oswego (1877), Altamont, Mound Valley

Montgomery County

Cherry Vale

Wilson County

Brooks, Neodesha, Fredonia (1879), New Albany

Elk County (northeast corner)

Greenwood County

Fall River, Piedmont, Severy (1879)

Butler County

Beaumont (1880), Keighley, Leon, Cave Springs, Haverhill, Augusta, Lorena, Andover,

Sedgwick County

Wichita Junction (terminal)(1880)

Source:

Miner, Craig H. The St. Louis-San Francisco Transcontinental Railroad, The Thirty-fifth Parallel Project, 1853-1890. Lawrence: The University Press of Kansas, 1972. (Doctoral dissertation).

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