Kansas City, Clay County and St. Joseph Railway

The Kansas City, Clay County and St. Joseph Railway was an electrified interurban railway that ran between Kansas City, Missouri, and St. Joseph, Missouri, from the early 1900s until 1933.

It was the longest of the various interurbans serving Kansas City running nearly 60 miles (97 km) and extended another 10 miles (16 km) to Savannah, Missouri.

[1] The interurban was a light rail system in which single cars traveled powered by an overhead electric wire.

One line went from Kansas City to St. Joseph, another line went from Kansas City to Excelsior Springs.

[2] George Townsend killed himself in Kansas City, MO on June 24, 1913 by jumping into the Missouri River.