Long ago on independence square (Kansas City, Jackson: bankrupt, lawsuit, live)

[MRG Dallas]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

Correct again!

A better answer:

pearjas

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

A better answer:

pearjas

Indeed!

[Major Tom 58]

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

A better answer:

pearjas

I've been wondering if it is now pearwas...

[Mad Anthonie]

Whereas y'all like to wax nostalgic;
Whereas this is connected to Old Independence (though I didn't actually see Indep);
Whereas we have had on our pages in the past photos of these upon the Square;
Therefore I now present for your viewing pleasure...


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Part 1 Kansas City Streetcars - YouTube[/SIZE]

[Major Tom 58]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

Whereas y'all like to wax nostalgic;
Whereas this is connected to Old Independence (though I didn't actually see Indep);
Whereas we have had on our pages in the past photos of these upon the Square;
Therefore I now present for your viewing pleasure...


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Part 1 Kansas City Streetcars - YouTube[/SIZE]

I guess if it's on film, it's on YouTube.

[WCHS'59]

I noticed the old yellow on black KC street signs, but also noticed some black on white street signs. I suspect those must have been KCK.

By the time I went to Swope Park the miniature train was a MOPac diesel instead of the miniature steamer shown. But, I never did get to ride it.

I also mentioned way back when that the tops of the street car rails could be seen peeking through the asphalt on Liberty in front of the Jones Store.

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

I noticed the old yellow on black KC street signs, but also noticed some black on white street signs. I suspect those must have been KCK.

By the time I went to Swope Park the miniature train was a MOPac diesel instead of the miniature steamer shown. But, I never did get to ride it.

I also mentioned way back when that the tops of the street car rails could be seen peeking through the asphalt on Liberty in front of the Jones Store.

If you'd like a souvenir of the old Swope Park Zoo Railroad stop in at the 1879 C&A Depot. They have spikes pulled from that RR for sale, along with a photo of the old locomotive.

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

If you'd like a souvenir of the old Swope Park Zoo Railroad stop in at the 1879 C&A Depot. They have spikes pulled from that RR for sale, along with a photo of the old locomotive.

I have been in the 1879 depot but guess I did not notice those spikes being for sale.

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

In reading the article “On the Right Side of the Tracks: The Wyandotte, Kansas City & Northwestern Railroad Then and Now,” the author says there was a Masso Spur going northwest just west of Turner Road in what would have been in the settlement of East Independence.


This spur serviced two quarries at the settlement of Pixley west of East Independence. The spur paralleled Massman Road, which is no longer there.

He says the Lexington Branch from Masso Spur was severed all the way to Lake City Junction in 1935 but the right of way continued to be used for telegraph lines through the sixties.


He mentions the Masso Spur as still being there (2007) but from Doc’s map the Lexington Branch line (or Pixley Spur nowadays) going east seems to have been reconfigured to go north just west of Vista Road to meet a shortened Masso Spur and then circles back somewhat.


I thought the Independence Power and Light at Truman and M-78 was built in the fifties to use natural gas to power the electrical generators. Then sometime in the 70s or 80s the plant was converted to coal. I thought coal was brought in to the plant on the Lexington Branch from Lake City junction. Now, the power plant is again converting back to gas or has converted back already.

There is a slight name difference between that shown in the Jackson County Historical Society Journal article and the name on the pass.

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

There is a slight name difference between that shown in the Jackson County Historical Society Journal article and the name on the pass.

In the 1877 Historical Atlas of Jackson County it is labeled as W. KC & NW RR. Perhaps it was a dual-identity RR!