First of its kind

First of its kind

By Angela Cotey | November 10, 2023

| Last updated on August 7, 2025


Twenty miles out of Kansas City on its 187-mile trek to Salina, Kans., on the old Kansas Pacific route, Union Pacific No. 800, a 1937 Alco and first of its 45 4-8-4s, has a roll on train 39, the Kansan, west of Bonner Springs on August 8, 1955.
Frank and Todd Novak collection

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