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Old 11-28-2017, 04:50 PM
 
Location: Centennial, Colorado
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I haven't found it on any of my old maps yet. What time-frame does it appear in?
Not sure when it appeared or disappeared but the 1890s was for sure.
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Old 11-28-2017, 04:58 PM
 
Location: Centennial, Colorado
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Kansas City Journal, January 5, 1898

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Kansas City Times, August 12, 1908
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Old 11-29-2017, 08:45 AM
 
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Kansas City Journal, January 5, 1898

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Kansas City Times, August 12, 1908
I'm suspecting that was an unofficial name for the area. I have checked several good maps of that time period, carefully following the MOPAC line, but haven't found it. The only Elm Park subdivision in Jackson County is near 54th & Pennsylvania in KC, platted in 1908.
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Old 11-29-2017, 09:14 AM
 
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Sedalia Weekly Democrat, Sedalia, Missouri, March 1, 1900
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Old 11-29-2017, 11:32 AM
 
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Sedalia Weekly Democrat, Sedalia, Missouri, March 1, 1900
This may be in the current day area of Front Street & Chouteau. An 1887 map shows a depot along the MOPAC in that area, but doesn't list a name for it.
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Old 11-29-2017, 12:32 PM
 
Location: Centennial, Colorado
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Kansas City Times, October 23, 1911
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Old 11-29-2017, 01:06 PM
 
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Apparently Elm Park is a very portable place!
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Old 11-29-2017, 02:51 PM
 
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The January 1907, The Official Guide of the Railways, lists the MoPac station at Elm Park, Mo. The Kansas City Star of sometime in 1897 mentions it being three miles south of Independence.

Elm Park was at about what is now 32nd and Noland.

The east-west RR is Chicago & Alton, the north-south RR is Missouri Pacific.

This map is from Bell's Map of Jackson County Missouri, 1897.

Quite some time ago I saw a map with Elm Park at this location and mused that I had never heard of it but did not follow up. Just recently I came across the name in relation to a train robbery, so decided to try to find it. Like you I had a difficult time coming up with the exact location.






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Old 11-30-2017, 08:31 AM
 
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The January 1907, The Official Guide of the Railways, lists the MoPac station at Elm Park, Mo. The Kansas City Star of sometime in 1897 mentions it being three miles south of Independence.

Elm Park was at about what is now 32nd and Noland.

The east-west RR is Chicago & Alton, the north-south RR is Missouri Pacific.

This map is from Bell's Map of Jackson County Missouri, 1897.

Quite some time ago I saw a map with Elm Park at this location and mused that I had never heard of it but did not follow up. Just recently I came across the name in relation to a train robbery, so decided to try to find it. Like you I had a difficult time coming up with the exact location.
Based on the earlier news articles I looked west of Independence, and east along the Lexington Branch. I did check the Bell's map, but not south of town. Apparently newsmen of that time were not strong in geography.
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Old 11-30-2017, 10:15 AM
 
Location: Centennial, Colorado
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Here is a toughie, maybe.

There was RR track in Independence which ran parallel to a busy automobile thoroughfare before veering away to parallel another busy thoroughfare.

The track has been abandoned, but as of 2017 some is still sitting there rusting away.

Where is this track and what company formerly owned it?
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