Kansas City Terminal Railway
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The Kansas City Terminal Railway (reporting mark KCT) is a Class III terminal railroad that serves as a joint operation of the trunk railroads that serve the Kansas City metropolitan area, the United States' second largest rail hub after Chicago.[1] It is operated by the Kaw River Railroad.[2][3]
The railway was created after a series of floods in 1903, 1904, and 1908 inundated the West Bottoms each time and temporarily closed the Union Depot there. The 12 original trunk railways of the city at the time joined to build the new Kansas City Union Station and to coordinate the bridges and switches that serve the city.
Under an Interstate Commerce Commission order, the railway operated and then oversaw the liquidation of the Rock Island Line from 1979 to 1980.
The railway owns and dispatches 85 miles of track (25 in Kansas and 60 in Missouri) and leases six locomotives and no freight cars. It no longer owns Union Station. It has subcontracted its maintenance operations to BNSF.
The original trunk railroads that were owners of the Kansas City Terminal were:
- Alton Railroad
- Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
- Chicago Great Western Railway
- Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad
- Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
- Kansas City Southern Railway
- Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad
- Missouri Pacific Railroad
- St. Louis-San Francisco Railway
- Union Pacific Railroad
- Wabash Railroad
It now serves the Class I railroads BNSF, CPKC Railway, Norfolk Southern Railway, Union Pacific, and Amtrak as well as the Class II railroad Missouri & Northern Arkansas Railroad, and the class III railroad Kaw River Railroad (a WATCO subsidiary).
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- 1906 establishments in Missouri
- Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
- Companies based in Kansas City, Missouri
- Kansas City Southern Railway
- Kansas railroads
- Missouri railroads
- Non-operating common carrier freight railroads in the United States
- Railway companies established in 1906
- Switching and terminal railroads