Kansas Train Tales

Kansas Train Tales

Robert L. Collins

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Editorial:
Robert Collins
Año de edición:
2009
ISBN:
9798232824068

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This book is for anyone interested in the history of Kansas and its railroads.In a series of 15 articles, the author tells of Kansas rail oddities such as a train robbery on the Frisco Railway in Andover, the construction of a nationally famous Rock Island Line bridge near Liberal, and the tragedy behind a grave site for six Kansas Pacific track workers near Victoria.There are stories of short lines and ghost railroads like the Scott City Northern, the St. Joseph & Topeka, and the Marion Belt & Chingawassa Springs. There’s also a bibliography of the central Kansas railroad builder who became an amateur historian.

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