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Title
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Second Century for Transit System
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Description
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[T]hese streamlined trolleys that were introduced in 1941. The last run by one of the cars was made on June 22, 1957, at the time they were replaced by busses. Chronology: (March 27, 1869) franchise for the first street car granted by the city council to the Kansas City & Westport Railroad Company; (1870) service started on the line, with each of the two cars drawn by two mules, from 4th and Main Streets to 16th and Grand Avenues, where the car barns and stables were located; (August 1897) last horse-drawn line ended on the Downtown Broadway line.
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Date
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1969-03-27
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Horse Railroad City Directory Entries
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Description
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Listings for the four horse railroads in operation in 1881: (1) Westport & Kansas City Horse Railroad Company at "Westport Road, s. O. K. Creek," (2) Jackson County Horse Railroad at "Fourth, northeast corner Wyandotte," (3) Corrigan Horse Railroad Company at "Seventeenth, corner Madison avenue," and (4) Kansas City Horse Railroad Company at "Fourth, northeast corner Wyandotte."
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Date
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1881
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Not So Rapid Transit
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Description
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Photo of "the entire Rosedale St. railway system in 1888, according to. ..Mrs. Margaret Landis, Rosedale historian. .."
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Date
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1973-08-12
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Horse and Cable Railways
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Description
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Information on the horse and cable street railways of the city.
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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Mule Car Railways
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Description
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Photos and information on the early street railways of the Kansas City area powered by mules and horses, including the Kansas City & Westport Horse Railroad of the 1870s and the Kansas City & Rosedale Railways of 1880s Kansas City, Kansas.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
