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North Missouri Railroad.  J.L. Howard Hallmark.  A very early Civil War era railroad that operated on the edge of the frontier before the westward expansion of the transcontinental railroad.

Incorporated in 1851, the railroad operated in Missouri and Iowa.  It was reorganized as the St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern Railway, a forerunner of the Wabash Railroad, in 1872.

The railroad was built to a 5 ft 6 in broad gauge.  The line reached Macon, Missouri, in 1859, 172 miles from St. Louis.  At Macon, the company interchanged with the standard gauge Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad.

The American Civil War broke out on April 12, 1861. Missouri, a border state, was the site of intense warfare for the next four years. Isaac H. Sturgeon, president of the North Missouri Railroad, required railroad employees to swear a loyalty oath to the Union, and the railroad transported Union soldiers during the war.  The railroad was damaged repeatedly during the war the site of several battles, including the Centralia Massacre, in which two dozen unarmed Union soldiers traveling aboard a North Missouri Railroad train were executed by Confederate guerilla force led by William T. Anderson.

Please refer to Wikipedia for additional information and the citations for the above information.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Missouri_Railroad

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