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of the City, making changes inside the city limits unnecesary. On the first
Sunday of it's operation, the Kaw Valley line carried 3,700 round-trip passen=
gers between Sonner Springs and downtown Kansas City, Missouri.

hr, Heim and associates eventually equipped the Kaw Valley line with ten
all-steel passenger coaches at a cost of $10,000 each form the Cincinnati Car
Company. Some of these were reportedly secondhand at the start of their Kaw
Valley run, but if so, were adequate to serve the duration of the passenger
business on that line. These cars were fifty-two feet long, with center ent-~
rances, and each weighed some 52,000 pounds. They were mounted on Baldwin trues
and were fitted with four Westinghouse H.L. 30€ C.V. motors and Westinghouse
air brake equipment. The interior of the cars was trimmed in mohogany, while
the exterior of the cars was a dark green with white trim around the windows.
Above the windows were portions of stained glass, and a eid to keep all pas-
esnpeme inside the cars, The fifty-two foot vehicles could carry: up to sixty
Sep with standing room for an additional sixty. A few of the cars were pro
vided the additional luxuries of a baggage compartment, smoking compartment ,
and ladies compartment. Hach passenger car carried a white uniformed motorman
and a conductor wearing the traditional blue serge of railroad attire. Tn ad-
dition to the passenger coaches, four express cars were also purchased from the
same Cincinnati firm.

With McDanield's dream of a Bonner-to-Kansas City line realized, ir. seim
soon acquired 21.4 miles of additional railroad right of way and pushed west on
toward new achievements. The city of Lawrence, with it’s student populations
of Kansas University and Haskell Indian Institute and it's compact business area
provided an attractive direction in which to build. Further west of Lawrence
was the state capital of Topeka with it's 40,000 residents, and it igo was part
of the Kaw Valley's expansion plans. In June of 1916, several months after the
dine had reached the downtown section of Lawrence, a daily schedule between

Lawrence and Kansas City was begun. In doing so, the Heim line marked up an