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Kansas Southwestern & Central Kansas Rwy's" anything left?

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Posted by MidlandMike on Saturday, January 16, 2016 9:32 PM

The line that reaches to Colorado was the former Mo Pac to Pueblo, hence the UP markings.

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Posted by samfp1943 on Saturday, January 16, 2016 6:17 PM

caboose63

Is there any tracks of the Central Kansas Railway and Kansas Southwestern Railways (OmniTrax lines) left, or has all of the lines been torn up?

 

In July of 2001 Watco Company merged the KSW and the CKRR into the Kansas&Oklahoma RR..It operates in three directions out of Wichita,Ks. to a Western point that used to be on the Co/Ks Line at Towner,Co.(?)  It is listed as comprising some 840 miles total track. It was comprised of former AT&SF lines W(but at some point UPRR must have had some of their lines(?) When traveling in Western Kansas, I noticed that many of the signal boxes at many rail-highway crossings had UPRR 'contact number information' stickers on them(?)

 

 


 

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Posted by mudchicken on Friday, January 15, 2016 1:49 PM

Kansas & Oklahoma Ry (WATCO)

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Kansas Southwestern & Central Kansas Rwy's" anything left?
Posted by caboose63 on Friday, January 15, 2016 1:33 PM

Is there any tracks of the Central Kansas Railway and Kansas Southwestern Railways (OmniTrax lines) left, or has all of the lines been torn up?

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