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Title: Street Railway Progress
Description: The Metropolitan Street Railway Company spent nearly two million dollars in 1899 modernizing Kansas City's street railways. Expenditures are included in this article detailing the different work that was completed.
Date: 1900-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Heim Road Completed
Description: The Heim Road, also referred to as the East Side Electric Railway, will near completion by October 15, 1899. The road, being 2.5 miles long, will run �??from Market Square to the intersection of the old county road, a point north of Heim�??s brewery in the East Bottoms.�?�
Date: 1899-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Country Club Line Streetcar
Description: Route 56, Country Club line car crossing 62nd Terrace, between Brookside Plaza and Wornall Rd. The streetcar is heading south about to enter the Brookside Station. The building in the background is the Brookside Garage, on the site of the current Cosentino's Market.
Date: 1955
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Dodson Line 65
Description: Image identified as 75th and Wornall, electric railway. On back of photograph, written in blue ink, "KCPS 1175 (Dodson), 75th @ Wornall, Summer 1950."
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Interurban Centers and Interurban Cars: Kansas City
Description: Article describes the interurban system of Kansas City, Missouri. It include specifications for cars and tracks, maps, and lists of towns served, and information about each company.
Date: 1917-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Hocker Grove Bungalows
Description: Short article about the acreage north of Johnson Drive and west of Turkey Creek purchased by Kansas City banker R. W. Hocker in 1905 and its subsequent development as an amusement park. Hocker became director of the Kansas City and Olathe Railroad Company and an electric trolley line"--known locally as the 'Hocker Line'--from Rosedale to Merriam was completed in 1908." In 1915, Hocker developed the Hocker Grove subdivision of 17 homes, several being Craftsman style bungalows. An image of the bungalow at 9617 Hocker Drive is included.
Date: 2009
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Lackman Thompson Farm
Description: Article with photograph of the Lackman Thompson home, located at 11180 Lackman Road. This home was placed on the Register of Historic Kansas paces in 1992. In 1901 William Lackman started an interurban railway called the Kansas City and Olathe. His partner, Shawnee resident and former Johnson County Treasurer, David B. Johnson, ran off with the company funds.
Date: 2008
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Vanishing (The) Interurbans
Description: Photos and information about streetcars and electric interurban railways as covered in Ed Conrad's book "Heartland Traction" published in 2006 [BROWSING MVSC Q 625.6 C75H].
Date: 2008-08-17
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Heartland Traction: The Interurban Lines of Kansas City
Description: This book contains information concerning the interurban railway lines in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Included are: Kansas City, Leavenworth & Western (the Leavenworth Line); Kansas City, Lawrence & Topeka (the Hocker Line); Kansas City, Kaw Valley & Western (the Kaw Valley Line); Lawrence city streetcars; Missouri & Kansas (the Strang line); and Kansas City, Clay County & St. Joseph (the Missouri Short Line). Also includes a chapter called "Remnants From a Bygone Era" which has pictures showing some remnants of this past transportation mode. Lots of maps and pictures of equipment, etc.
Date: 2006
Object Type: Book

Title: Mapping the Past
Description: Article gives a history of the KCCC&ST, or Kansas City, Clay County and St. Joseph, Railway Company. Completed in 1913 and flourishing from then until the mid-1920s, the Interurban was made obsolete by private automobiles, buses and the Depression and ceased operation in 1933. Nonetheless, it played a key role in the development of Clay, Platte and Buchanan Counties.
Date: 2006
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: William B. Strang, Jr.
Description: Photo and bio of William B. Strang, Jr., or William Strang, "dreamer, visionary, inventor, real estate and community developer, prometer, and entrepreneur-on-a-shoe string" coming to Kansas City from New York City around the turn of the 19th century. Description of his transportation career, establishing the Strang Line or the Missouri and Kansas Interurban Railway from Kansas City, Missouri, to Olathe, Kansas, and points in-between (ending in 1940 as obsolete because of automobile proliferation), leading to the development of Overland Park, Kansas, and establishing Strang Aviation Park there in 1909.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Book Section

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