Atchison, Lincoln and Columbus Railroad
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The Atchison, Lincoln, and Columbus Railroad was initially authorized to build from the terminus point of the Atchison and Nebraska Railroad, which was at the Nebraska and Kansas border North of White Cloud, KS, to Columbus, NE by way of Lincoln, NE. Work began in 1871 and the Atchison and Nebraska Railroad was consolidated into the Atchison, Lincoln, and Columbus Railroad on November 3, 1871. The railroad reached Lincoln by 1872. In January of 1880, the railroad was purchased by the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad which was itself had been purchased Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in 1872.
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