In a message dated 5/21/2007 1:31:00 P.M. Central Daylight Time, bdoerr@msm.umr.edu writes: BUT the N.M., if that is meant ot refer to the North Missouri, is confusing; the North Missouri ran Hannibal to St. Joseph. Any ideas? ______________________________ How 'bout this from: _http://tacnet.missouri.org/history/encycmo/encycmorr.html#NM_ (http://tacnet.missouri.org/history/encycmo/encycmorr.html#NM) The Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri was edited by Howard L. Conard and published by the Southern History Company, of New York, Louisville, and St. Louis, in 1901. The University of Missouri Library has made available the entire contents of the 6 volume set on its website as part of the _Virtually Missouri_ (http://www.virtuallymissouri.org/) project. The books are in a section called _Missouri: Its History, Geology and Culture_ (http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=umlib;cc=umlib;tpl=home.tpl) . Dan McGuire North Missouri Railroad North Missouri Railroad. The North Missouri Railroad was incorporated March 3, 1851, to build a railroad from St. Charles, Missouri to the Iowa state line. The incorporators were residents of the counties on the line of the proposed route. In 1852 the charter was amended to as to allow the road to be extended to St. Louis and at a meeting of the stockholders held in St. Louis June 11, 1853, Frederick Schulenberg, Lewis Bissell, Gerald B. Allen, Thos. L. Sturgeon, Francis Yosti, Charles D. Drake, Arnold Krekel, James T. Sweringen, James S. Rollins, Calvin Case, and William G. Moore were chosen directors. John O'Fallon was made president, E. C. Willis secretary and treasurer, and C. D. Drake counselor. At the next election Colonel O'Fallon declined a re-election, and Isaac H. Sturgeon was chosen in his stead. In 1855 the company received from the State a loan of $1,000,000 in bonds for the purchase of iron and rolling stock for the line south of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, with which it made connection, and it reached Warrenton in 1855, Mexico in 1858, and Macon February 1, 1859. Under the charter ferriage across the Missouri River at St. Charles was necessary, requiring unloading cars on one side and reloading upon the other side. In 1864 the loaded cars were first ferried across the river and this method was maintained until the St. Charles bridge was built. In 1865 first mortgage bonds were issued to the amount of $6,000,000 and the northern branch and the main line to Kansas City were completed, and the proposed bridge built. The name of the road was afterward changed to the St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern, and subsequently it passed into the hands of the "Wabash Railroad Company". (See Wabash Railroad). [Emphasis Added] ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.