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Page #2 Kansas Railroads On March 20, 1860, the first track was laid in Kansas at Elwood. One railroad company was the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railroad which lasted 6 years. That railroad company laid down almost 1,400 miles of railway lines by 1888. Railroads came into Kansas when the state was expanding very fast, making land valuable. Railroads have made cities and have destroyed cities. Railroads in Kansas started out with a goal for a Transcontinental Railroad. About 45 railroad companies were made between 1860-1870. Many of the railroads was hoping eventually they will become parts of the transcontinental railroad. The aid for land grants for the railroads in Kansas was about 6,400 acres of land for every miles of railroad

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