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Title
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Country Club Line Streetcar
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1955
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Dodson Line 65
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Description
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Image identified as 75th and Wornall, electric railway. On back of photograph, written in blue ink, "KCPS 1175 (Dodson), 75th @ Wornall, Summer 1950."
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Date
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1950
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Vanishing (The) Interurbans
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Description
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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].
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Date
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2008-08-17
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Heartland Traction: The Interurban Lines of Kansas City
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2006
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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William B. Strang, Jr.
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book Section
