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The Southwest Missouri Railroad Company was a rail carrier in the tri-state mining region of southwestern Missouri, southeastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma. An outgrowth of passenger streetcar lines with 94 miles of track, it became a smaller but full-fledged electric freight railway by the time it ceased operations effective May 31, 1939.
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- 1 2 "History of the Frisco". The Springfield-Greene County Library District. Retrieved November 9, 2021.
- ↑ "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Sarcoxie Public Square Historic District" (PDF). MOStateParks.com. Retrieved November 9, 2021.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "The Missouri and Western Railway Company" (PDF). All Aboard, the Frisco Railroad Museum, Volume 1, No. 5, October 1986 (accessed on CondrenRails.com. Retrieved November 9, 2021.
- ↑ "Pierce City, MO". Google Maps. Retrieved November 9, 2021.
- ↑ "Preliminary Inventory R0362 (RA0374) St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company Records 1859-1980, Missouri and Western Railway Company, p.56" (PDF). The State Historical Society of Missouri Research Center-Rolla. Retrieved November 9, 2021.