Kansas City Suburban Belt Railroad

The Kansas City Suburban Belt Railroad was a railway located throughout the suburban Kansas City area. The railway was incorporated by Arthur Stilwell and Edward L. Martin in 1887, and began operation in 1890.


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    Noel Langley (1898–1981)

    It is said the city was spared a golden-oak period because its residents, lacking money to buy the popular atrocities of the nineties, necessarily clung to their rosewood and mahogany.
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    to puzzle a bending gravestone for his sake,
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    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)