Schmeling, Richard L. (Author)
South Platte Press/Brueggenjohann/Reese, Inc.
Physical Details: 80
Language: English
The Nebraska-Kansas Railroad was owned and operated by the Ideal Cement company at its plant near Superior, Nebraska. This small industrial railway, about four miles long at maximum length, crossed the state line from the Ideal Cement plant in Nebraska to the company's rock quarry in Kansas, thus qualifying as an interstate carrier. Hauls of the Nebraska-Kansas Railroad were almost exclusively limestone rock for use in the manufacture of cement at the Superior plant. Its one claim to fame was for having been the shortest interstate railroad in the United States. This fact was once cited by the well-known "Ripley's Believe It or Not" newspaper feature.
...MoreReview Bradley A. Scott (Fall/Winter 2012) Review of "America's shortest interstate railroad: The believe it or not railroad". Railroad History (pp. 95-96).
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