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201:(formerly the Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western) was authorized in 1866 to build west into Colorado, leaving the Central Branch with a hanging end at Waterville. After failing to get land grants for an extension along the Eastern Division's original route into Nebraska, the Central Branch turned its sights to local traffic. Several extensions and branches were built and leased in the late 1870s, beginning with the
307:(the new name for the old Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western), desired control of the Central Branch to avoid competition between eastern Kansas and Denver. He acquired a majority of stock in the Central Branch and its leased lines, turning it over in January 1880 to the Kansas Pacific, which was immediately merged into the
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to the main transcontinental line. The company would only receive land for the first 100 miles (160 km) from
Atchison. The Hannibal and St. Joseph transferred its rights under the act to the Atchison and Pike's Peak in January 1864. Construction began in 1865, and the line was completed from
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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
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Pacific Railway was incorporated in Nebraska in December 1887 to continue the line northwest to the western boundary of the state in
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Central Branch Union Pacific was not associated with the Union Pacific until 1880; it was to be one of several eastern branches of the
315:(MoPac), another company that he controlled, which had a north-south line through Atchison. The final extension of the Central Branch in Kansas was the
82:, 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
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Indians and U.S. government, part of that tribe's land was sold to the railroad company. It acquired more land from the
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255:Atchison, Republican Valley and Pacific Railway
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