page_title: Kansas City Terminal Railway
hierarchical_section_title: Kansas City Terminal Railway
context_page_description: The Kansas City Terminal Railway is a Class III terminal railroad that serves as a joint operation of the trunk railroads that serve the Kansas City metropolitan area, the United States' second largest rail hub after Chicago. It is operated by the Kaw River Railroad.
  The railway was created after a series of floods in 1903, 1904, and 1908 inundated the West Bottoms each time and temporarily closed the Union Depot there. The 12 original trunk railways of the city at the time joined together to build the new Kansas City Union Station and to coordinate the bridges and switches that serve the city.
  Under an Interstate Commerce Commission order, the railway operated and then oversaw the liquidation of the Rock Island Line from 1979 to 1980.
  The railway owns and dispatches 85 miles of track and leases six locomotives and no freight cars. It no longer owns Union Station. It has subcontracted its maintenance operations to BNSF.
  The original trunk railroads that were owners of the Kansas City Terminal were:
  Alton Railroad
  Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
  Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
  Chicago Great Western Railway
  Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
context_section_description: The Kansas City Terminal Railway (reporting mark KCT) is a Class III terminal railroad that serves as a joint operation of the trunk railroads that serve the Kansas City metropolitan area, the United States' second largest rail hub after Chicago. It is operated by the Kaw River Railroad.
  The railway was created after a series of floods in 1903, 1904, and 1908 inundated the West Bottoms each time and temporarily closed the Union Depot there.  The 12 original trunk railways of the city at the time joined together to build the new Kansas City Union Station and to coordinate the bridges and switches that serve the city.
  Under an Interstate Commerce Commission order, the railway operated and then oversaw the liquidation of the Rock Island Line from 1979 to 1980.
  The railway owns and dispatches 85 miles of track (25 in Kansas and 60 in Missouri) and leases six locomotives and no freight cars.  It no longer owns Union Station.  It has subcontracted its maintenance operations to BNSF.
  The original trunk railroads that were owners of the Kansas City Terminal were: 
  Alton Railroad
  Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
  Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
  Chicago Great Western Railway
  Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
  Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
  Kansas City Southern Railway
  Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad
  Missouri Pacific Railroad
  St. Louis-San Francisco Railway
  Union Pacific Railroad
  Wabash Railroad
  It now serves the Class I railroads BNSF, Canadian Pacific Railway, Kansas City Southern, Norfolk Southern Railway and Union Pacific as well as the Class III railroads Missouri and Northern Arkansas Railroad and Genesee & Wyoming, plus Amtrak.
caption: Kansas City Union Station
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