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Title
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Kansas City Economy
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Description
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File contains papers and articles about Kansas City's economy including diversified manufacturing, marketing of farm products and agricultural industries; transportation; wholesaling and warehousing; financial transactions; medical activities; and research.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Shipping on Right Track
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Description
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Article discusses railroads and truckers increase in business after the economic slump in mid-2008. "Economists often look at railcar loadings as a harbinger of things to come for the bigger economy." Includes a chart, "Recovery Chugs Along," showing average weekly number of carloads and containers hauled by U.S. railroads each month for 2008, 2009, and 2010. Article also adresses the trucking industry.
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Date
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2011-11-15
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Diagram Showing Schedule of Merchandise Cars by Days from Kansas City to Representative Points
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Description
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"Thirteen Trunk Line Railroads Dispatch 600 Merchandise Cars Daily from Kansas City." Map depicts the days-in-transit of railroad lines from Kansas City to various other U.S. cities. Cities east to Chicago and west to Los Angeles are included, the nearest reached by merchandise from Kansas City in one day, and the furthest in seven days. Text on map includes descriptive material pertaining to Kansas City, such as population, warehouse and industrial resources, and railroads.
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Date
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1922
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Annual Review: Growth and Progress of Kansas City
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Description
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Review of Kansas City's economy, including railroads, packing, grain, manufacturing, buildings, general trade, schools, city government, coal, etc.
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Date
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1872-01-03
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Let the Good Times Roll
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Description
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Large photos and article about Kansas City's primary urban identity as a transportation center or "depot city." History of the Kansas City area back to the Ice Age through the building of the Hannibal Bridge, "the one true epochal event in Kansas City's history." National rankings and figures regarding the city's railroad industry, trucking industry, food storage industry, aviation industry, inland foreign trade zone size (second in the nation), rail center size (first in the nation), hard winter wheat marketing (first), underground storage space (first), highway miles per capita (first), and grain elevator capacity (third).
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Date
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1994-02
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
