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| name            = ''City of Kansas City''
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| image           = Wabash City of Kansas City.JPG
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| caption         = A postcard depicts the ''City of Kansas City''.
| type            = [[Inter-city rail]]
| status          = Discontinued
| locale          = [[Midwest United States]]
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| first           = November 26, 1947
| last            = February 1968
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| formeroperator  = [[Wabash Railroad]]
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| start           = [[St. Louis]]
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| end             = [[Kansas City, Missouri]]
| distance        = {{convert|278.1|mi|km}} 
| journeytime     = 5 hours, 40 minutes
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| trainnumber     = Westbound: 3; east bound: 12
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| seating         = Reclining seat [[Passenger_car_(rail)#Coach|coaches]]
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| catering        = [[Dining car]]
| observation     = [[Parlor car|Parlor-lounge car]]
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The '''''City of Kansas City''''' was a [[streamliner|streamlined]] [[passenger train]] operated by the [[Wabash Railroad]] and its successor the [[Norfolk and Western Railway]] between [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]] and [[Kansas City, Missouri]]. It operated from 1947 to 1968. At the time of its introduction it was the only streamliner which operated entirely within the state of [[Missouri]].

== History ==
The ''City of Kansas City'' commenced operating on November 26, 1947, and made a daily {{convert|278|mi|sing=on}} round trip schedule between [[St. Louis]] and [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]]. At the time of its introduction it was the only streamliner which operated entirely within the state of Missouri. General [[Omar Bradley]], a native Missourian who as a young man had worked on the Wabash, christened the new train.<ref name="trains">{{cite journal | journal=Trains |date=January 1948 | title=Odds and Ends}}; 63-66</ref>

Primarily a daylight train, #3 departed St. Louis at 8:45{{nbsp}}am, and arrived in KC at 2:15{{nbsp}}pm. The consist was then turned around and readied for the eastbound trip as #12, departing KC at 3:55{{nbsp}}pm, and arriving in St. Louis at 9:45{{nbsp}}pm.<ref>4/29/56 Public Timetable</ref>

The [[Norfolk and Western Railway]] leased the Wabash in 1964 but did not discontinue the ''City of Kansas City'' until February 1968.<ref name="sanders" />

== Equipment ==
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* #375 baggage car
* #475 baggage-mail car
* #1425 coach (58 seats)
* #1426 coach (58 seats)
* #1525 lunch counter-coach
* #50 dining car
* #1600 parlor-observation car
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The [[American Car and Foundry Company]] built the original seven-car consist in their [[St. Charles, Missouri]] plant in the suburbs of St. Louis. Cars included a [[baggage car]], baggage-mail car, two 58-seat coaches, a lunch counter-coach, a [[dining car]], and a parlor-[[observation car]]. The interior of the parlor-observation car was designed according to Pullman Plan #9001 and Pullman managed the car, as it did with all the Wabash parlor cars.<ref name="wayner" />

== References ==
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<ref name="sanders">{{Sanders-Heartland|page=237}}</ref>
<ref name="wayner">{{Wayner - Car names, numbers, consists|page=113}}</ref>
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{{NW named trains}}
{{Wabash passenger}}

[[Category:Passenger trains of the Wabash Railroad]]
[[Category:Named passenger trains of the United States]]
[[Category:Railway services introduced in 1947]]
[[Category:Passenger rail transportation in Missouri]]
[[Category:Railway services discontinued in 1968]]