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R Memphis, Kansas and Colorado Railway
Company.
89 Journals,
1880-1888.
Two volumes.
MICROFILM
These are construction and operating
journals of the Memphis, Kansas and Colorado Railway, a narrow gauge branch
line of the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad. The branch was consolidated with other lines
in 1888.
Organized as a Kansas corporation in
1877, the Memphis, Kansas and Colorado Railway’s fifty-mile line was completed
from Weir City, Kansas, to Cherryvale, Kansas, by 1881. A change to standard gauge (fifty-six and
one-half inches) was made in 1882. The
parent company and its branches were consolidated as the Kansas City, Fort
Scott and Springfield Railroad Company in 1888.
The first volume contains the construction
records of the line from July 1880 through July 1881. Included are the figures for the line extension from Parsons,
Kansas, to a junction with the Kansas City, Lawrence and Southern Railroad. Poor’s Manual
of the Railroads of the United States (1880) indicates that the extension was the beginning of a
proposed narrow-gauge line from Memphis, Tennessee, to San Juan, Colorado.
The second volume also contains
construction records, as well as accounts of bond, mortgage, and interest
payments, and operating expenses.
Included are the costs of the change of gauge in 1882. The last entry in this volume records the
details of consolidation in 1888.
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