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<p>In 1873, the Wyandotte, Kansas City & Northwestern Railway constructed a 30-foot gauge railroad, extending from Independence, Missouri to Lexington, Missouri; a distance of 43 miles. The railroad was sold to the Kansas & Eastern Railway in 1878, and was merged into the Missouri Pacific Railway (MP) in 1880. The newly formed MP had acquired a large amount of track throughout Missouri and Kansas. The principal mainline of the railroad extended from St. Louis to Kansas City, via Jefferson, Sedalia and Independence. In 1888, the MP constructed an additional 77 miles to Boonville, Missouri. In 1902, an additional 43 miles were completed between Boonville and Jefferson City, as well as an additional 5 miles between west of Lake City and a junction with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, where the line would use trackage rights over the well built ATSF to reach Kansas City. The newly completed route formed a bypass of the congested mainline through western Missouri. The railroad reorganized to the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1917. A segment of the line between Independence and Lake City was abandoned in approximately 1979. The MP was merged into the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) in 1982. Today, Union Pacific continues to operate the line as the River Subdivision, and the remaining spur in Independence as the Pixley Industrial Lead.<br></p>
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