CONSOLIDATION
The first directors and officers of the consolidated Company were Geo.
H..Nettleton (President) C. W. Smith, (Vice-President) C. F. Morse (Roswell
Miller, July 1886) Edward Wilder (Treasurer) J. F. Goddard, Wallace Pratt
(General Attorney) W. J. Ferry (Secretary).
The line began near the eastern limits of Kansas City Missouri, at Rock Creek Junction where it connected with the C.&A. Ry. And extended Westerly to Clark's Junction (C.R.I.&P.) in Kansas City Kansas. The last 1.2 miles on the West was built in 1900. The length in Missouri is 7.04 miles. In Kansas 3.56 miles, total 10.60 miles.
The Kaw River Bridge, lands for right-of-way and some tracks were bought from the Kaw Valley Town Site & Bridge Company and the Kaw Valley Railway & Improvement Company, allied interest of the Kansas City Stock Yards Company, which had intended to move its yards to land in Kansas, west of 15th Street. The Belt Railway Comapny also bought tracks extending from the State Line to Grand Avenue from the Union Transit Company and the Kansas City Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad Company (Deed, May 31, 1884) Geo. H. Nettleton was President until his death March 26, 1896. Daniel Bontecou, (Chief Engineer) (1882-1886) was succeeded by W. B. Knight, May 1886. Grading East of Grand Avenue was begun in 1884,
Original Company Stock was owned as follows (100,000.00)
Kansas City Topeka & Western 5/10
Kansas City Fort Scott & Gulf 3/10
Kansas City Stock Yards Co. 2/10
and transferred to Geo. H. Nettleton and Edward Wildern, Trustees (1885)
In July 1886 the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company
acquired the interest of the Kansas City Stock Yards Company.
A contract with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company
was made May 31, 1887 and that Company began running its trains over the
line December 5, 1887.
The Chicago Santa Fe and California Railway (Construction Company)
began use of the line January 29, 1888. The Chicago, Santa Fe & California
Railway Company began its regular operating service April 29, 1888. The
contrat with the latter for 99 years was dated May 31, 1888.
The Chicago Passenger trains of these lines first used a small frame
station at Walnut Street. The Grand Avenue Passenger Station was completed
in April 1889.
1st Superintendent 1885, Day K. Smith - 1892. Succeeded in 1892 by D.
W. Rider (1910)
The Kansas City Belt Railway Company was conveyed by deed, March 1st,
1910 to the Kansas City Terminal Railway Company.
Capital stock $30,000,000. Authorized. Increased by certificate filed
March 28th, 1907 to $50,000,000. Pioneer Trust Company.
The purposse of building this line was primarily for an outlet for the
Santa
Fe to Chicago.
Joun V. Hanna, Chief Engineer, B. E. Ellis, Signal Engineer. Jarvis
Hunt,
Architect. A. H. Buckley, Supt. Of Construction. E. W. Brown, Inspector.
Also W. W. Harris, M. E. Grant and L. F. McClure, Inspectors.
Work on the depot began in 1911, during the summer. Completed and
formally opened November 1st, 1914 Geo. A. Fuller, Contractor, Chicago.
Ill.
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