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Missouri History Today September 24, 1987: Consultant Revives State’s Fast-Track Dreams
Rolling down the tracks to you, is our inaugural Frisco Rail Fest to be held Saturday June 15th on C-Street in the City Market (321 E Commercial Street). This event is sponsored by the C-Street Community Improvement District, Independent Printing, Sigwo Industries, and Bradley IT Services. This event is FREE! This program is to highlight …
On this day the railroad was welcomed into Springfield, Missouri. This effectively removed the Ozarks as a barrier to Springfield’s connection with the east.
Work was completed on the KATY railroad between St. Charles and New Franklin. Now it is a beautiful bicycle trail all across the state.
Missouri History Today September 24, 1987: Consultant Revives State’s Fast-Track Dreams
The first through train from St. Louis arrived at Kansas City on this day. This post was contributed by Ross Malone. A historian and a retired school teacher, Ross has authored many books about Missouri’s history, weird facts, and folk tales. He has also written children’s historical fiction. Visit his website, and buy his books in the Missouri …
The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, predecessor of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad (known as The Frisco), was incorporated on this date.
The first railroad across the state was completed between Hannibal and St. Joseph. On this date the eastbound section was joined with the westbound section at Chillicothe.
Days after the conclusion of the St. Louis general strike by the St. Louis Workingman’s Party, the first general strike in the United States, the St. Louis County Council required all able-bodied males between the ages of twenty-one and fifty to work on the roads for six days each year. That day they also made another change; they raised the drinking age from sixteen to eighteen.
