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The
Gateway Western Railway was a
Class II railroad that operated 408 miles of former
Chicago and Alton Railroad track between
Kansas City and
St. Louis, Missouri. It also operated between
Kansas City, Missouri, and
Springfield, Illinois on the old
Alton Railroad line that eventually was the
Chicago, Missouri and Western Railway.
History
The Gateway Western Railway began operations on
January 9 1990 after purchasing the Kansas City to St. Louis right-of-way from the bankrupt
Chicago, Missouri and Western Railway. Originally the Kansas City, St. Louis & Chicago, the line came under
Chicago & Alton control in 1878, but never had much success under several operators of its line over the years, which included the
Alton Railroad,
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad from 1947 to 1972, and
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad from 1972 to 1987. On
April 28 1987, Illinois Central Gulf, divesting itself of surplus lines to get itself down to a core system, sold the Kansas City line, and the
Chicago (actually with ownership ending at
Joliet, Illinois, then with trackage rights from there to Chicago via the
Illinois Central Railroad) to
East St. Louis mainline, to a new 633 mile regional,
Chicago, Missouri and Western Railway.
In 1989, the Chicago, Missouri and Western Railway entered bankruptcy. The
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF) had always wanted an access to St. Louis. Seeing an opportunity, Santa Fe arranged for a New York investment firm to purchase the Chicago, Missouri and Western Railway's
Kansas City to St. Louis line, thus creating the Gateway Western Railway. Santa Fe routed quite a bit of
intermodal traffic via this routing during this period. However, by 1995, the
Burlington Northern Railroad (BN) and the Santa Fe merged to form
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad. With the BN already owning a
St. Louis line via a couple of routes already, less and less ATSF traffic was routed this way.
In 1997, the GWWR and its Illinois subsidiary
Gateway Eastern Railway, were purchased by
Kansas City Southern (KCS). The KCS operated the GWWR as a subsidiary until 2002 when it transferred its controlling interest to its own parent company and officially merged the GWWR into the KCS. The Gateway Eastern, however, remained a KCS subsidiary.
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