Kansas Pacific Railway Company
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System number
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Information for Authority record
Name (Latin)
Kansas Pacific Railway Company
Other forms of name
Kansas Pacific Railroad
Leavenworth, Fort Riley, and Western Railroad Company
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Its The charters ... 1862.
- Moody's transportation manual, 1983(the Union Pacific Railroad Co. (chartered as Civil War necessity in 1862) merged on Jan. 24, 1880 with Kansas Pacific Railway Co. and Denver Pacific Railway & Telegraph Co. to form Union Pacific Railway Company; on July 1, 1897 the Union Pacific Railway Company was reorganized as Union Pacific Railroad Company)
- NUCMC data from Colo. Hist. Soc. Lib. for Its Records, 1866-1885(Kansas Pacific Railway Company)
- LC manual cat., under Kansas Pacific Railway Company, printed history card(Leavenworth, Pawnee, and Western Railroad Company [no publications in LC data base] chartered 1855, changed name in 1861 to Leavenworth, Fort Riley, and Western Railroad Company [no publications in LC data base] and in 1863 to Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division, which in 1869 changed its name to Kansas Pacific Railway Company)
- Poor's Man. of railroads 1869-1870(Kansas Pacific; heretofore Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division; name changed by joint resolution of Congress, 3/9/1869); Manual for 1890, in list of merged lines (Leavenworth, Pawnee, and Western Railroad Company; no road built by this company; merged into Union Pacific 1880 [both names before 1863 seem to be paper companies])
- NUCMC data from Nebraska State Hist. Soc. for Usher, J.P. Papers, 1840-1889(Kansas Pacific Railroad)