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Central Branch Railway
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Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad
The
Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad
was a
railroad
in the
U.S. state
of
Kansas
. Originally planned as a line from
Atchison
west into
Colorado
, and given federal
land grants
by the
Pacific Railway Act of 1862
as one of the branches of the
Union Pacific Railroad
, it was left with a hanging end at
Waterville, Kansas
when the
Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division
, with which it was to connect, changed its route. The line was acquired by the Union Pacific through a stock purchase by Jay Gould and leased to the
Missouri Pacific Railroad
in 1880. In 1909 the Central Branch was merged into the Missouri Pacific; the latter company came back into the Union Pacific system in 1982. In 1991 the remaining trackage west of
Frankfort
was leased to the
Kyle Railroad
.
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