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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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Mapping the Past
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2006
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
