St. Joseph & Grand Island Railway Company general journals

Title: St. Joseph & Grand Island Railway Company general journals

Dates: Jul. 1906-Dec. 1920

Collection Number: MS 935

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Extent: 4 volumes

Repository: California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives

Abstract: St. Joseph & Grand Island Railway journals from July 1906 to December 1918.

Language of Material: English

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[Identification of item]. St. Joseph & Grand Island Railway Company general journals. Collection Number: MS 935. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives

Gift of Ron Sleeter, 2014

The St. Joseph and Grand Island Railroad (SJ&GI) had its start as the St Joseph and Denver City Railroad which, after several changes of destination, was completed as the St Joseph and Western (SJ&W) between St Joseph, Missouri and Hastings, Nebraska in 1872. Seven years later, the Hastings and Grand Island Railroad was built between its namesake cities and promptly sold to the SJ&W, giving that railroad a connection to the Union Pacific Railroad at Grand Island. The SJ&W ran into financial difficulties, eventually falling into bankruptcy in 1884. The Union Pacific brought the railroad out of bankruptcy in 1885, reorganizing it as St Joseph and Grand Island Railroad. The SJ&GI became an essential part of UP's system, providing a connection from the transcontinental mainline to the eastern Kansas area, and UP undertook several steps to improve it. In 1914 a connection was made between the UP mainline at Gibbon and Hastings, providing a more direct route than through Grand Island. Also, a connection was made between Marysville on the SJ&GI and Topeka in 1906, from whence the UP's Kansas Pacific mainline gave access to Kansas City. [Wikopedia]

St. Joseph & Grand Island Railway journals from July 1906 to December 1918. Two of the journals were created by the United States Railroad Administration, the nationalized railroad system of the United States during the last two years of World War I/