Name/Title
Kansas City, Clay County & St. Joseph Railway Photos (12) from Western History Manuscripts Archives, c. 1915Entry/Object ID
P2019.43.27Description
Kansas City, Clay County & St. Joseph Railway Photos (12) from Western History Manuscripts Archives, c. 1915. "Photographs Showing the Substantial Character of the Construction of the Kansas City, Clay County & St. Joseph Railway." b/w. (Photo #8 missing)
13 photos with legend provided. Includes cars, bridges, culverts, viaducts, roadbed.
A = "Standard Passenger Cars in Kansas City". Line of attached trolley cars with passengers aboard. Car No. 26 in lead. . .
B = "Concrete Arch over Spartin Road on St. Joseph Division (70 foot)". Concrete span. Horse/buggy traveling underneath.
C = "Road Cut just before reaching Excelsior Springs" (62 foot), standard road bed and overhead construction". Perspective view down the track, graveled roadbed, electric poles/wires long right side, deep cut in hillside through which track passes. A man walking on either side.
D = Union Depot Bridge and Terminal Railroad Company's bridge across Missouri River; double track on upper level used by interurban; double track on lower level used by steam road.
E = St. Joseph Line Viaduct entering Dearborn. Long Trestle over creek.
F = Concrete work, standard type. Concrete Arch with roadway above, spanning creek below.
G = St. Joseph Line Bridge, Two metal superstructures spanning narrow river.
H = Concrete Arches, (three 60-foot) on Excelsior Springs Line. Distance view of cargo train traveling over the long span with 3 arches, corn crop in field in foreground.
I = Concrete Culvert Type. Large arched culvert built into hillside. Man standing at mouth of culvert.
J = Steel viaduct near North Kansas City on Excelsior Springs Division. Raised track on curve with wooden deck, overhead electric lines.
K = Roadbed, Standard construction and substation. Perspective view down tracks, with rock roadbed, electric poles/lines along right side of track. Building consists of two attached brick buildings, the smaller one in front. Men standing on track in front of door to smallest building. Early auto parked in back.
L = Concrete Arches on Excelsior Springs Line (Two 50-foot). Interurban passenger car traveling on top of double-arch span over a dry creek bed.Made/Created
Date made
1915Place
City
Kansas CityState/Province
MissouriLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, PhotographicNomenclature Primary Object Term
PhotographNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Interurban Railway, Interurban Railroad, Kansas City, Clay County & St. Joseph Railway, Interurban Trestle, Interurban Culvert, Interurban Excelsior Springs Line, Union Depot Bridge, Interurban CarDimensions
Dimension Notes
Printsize: 8½" x 11"Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Ed GentryProvenance
Notes
Part of the archives of Ed Gentry, and Interurban Historian.
