Kansas City Terminal Railway
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| Reporting marks | KCT |
| Locale | Kansas, Missouri |
| Dates of operation | 1909 – present |
| Track gauge | 4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm) (standard gauge) |
| Headquarters | Kansas City, Kansas |
The Kansas City Terminal Railway is Class III railroad that serves as joint operation of the trunk railroads that serve the Kansas City metropolitan area, the country's second largest rail hub.
The Railway was created after a 1905 flood in the West Bottoms closed the Union Depot there. The 12 original trunk railways of the city at the time joined together to build the new Union Station (Kansas City) and to coodinate the bridges and switches that serve the city.
The railway owns and dispatches 85 miles of track (25 in Kansas and 60 in Missouri) and has no locomotives or freight cars. It no longer owns Union Station. It has subcontracted its switching operations to the Kansas City Southern and its maintenance operations to BNSF.
The original trunk railroads that were owners of the Kansas City Terminal were the Alton Railroad, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, Chicago Great Western Railway, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, Kansas City Southern Railway, Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, Missouri Pacific Railroad, St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, Union Pacific Railroad and Wabash Railroad.
It now serves the Class I railroads BSNF, Kansas City Southern, Norfolk Southern Railway and Union Pacific as well as Class II carrier Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad and Class III Missouri and Northern Arkansas Railroad plus Amtrak.
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