Began in 1855 as the Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western Railroad, and was later reorganized in 1863 as the Union Pacific Eastern Division, The Kansas Pacific Railway (KP) was a historic railroad company that operated in the western United States in the late 19th century.
It operated many of the first long-distance lines in the state of Kansas in the 1870s, extending the national railway network westward across that state and into Colorado. Its main line furnished a principal transportation route that opened up settlement of the central Great Plains, and its link from Kansas City to Denver provided the last link in the coast-to-coast railway network in 1870.
The railroad was consolidated with the Union Pacific in 1880, and its mainline continues to be an integral part of the Union Pacific network today.
On the Kansas Pacific Railway, 1873, held by Southern Methodist University’s DeGolyer Library, consists of a series of photographs by Robert Benecke (1835-1903), taken along the Kansas Pacific line for the railroad company.
Included are views of Kansas, Colorado, and Missouri of railroads, depots, machine shops, roundhouses, locomotive with snow plow, bridges, towns, landscapes, buffalo hunters, cattle, horse race track, the University of Kansas, and a Kansas Pacific Railway “buffalo head” advertising photograph.
Also, includes a posed studio self-portrait of photographer Robert Benecke holding a rifle.
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| No. 1. General Offices of the Kansas Pacific Railway corner Fifth Street and Broadway, Kansas City, Mo. |
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| No. 2. Taxidermist's Department of the Kansas Pacific Railway. Buffalo Heads used for advertising purposes |
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| No. 3. General view of Kansas City, Mo., from corner of Tenth Street and Broadway |
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| No. 4. Railway Bridge over the Missouri River at Kansas City, Mo. |
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| No. 5. Railway Bridge over the Kansas River near Kansas City, Mo. |
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| No. 6. General view of the Kansas Pacific Railway Machine Shops at Armstrong, Kansas |
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| No. 7. Machine Shops at Armstrong, Kansas |
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| No. 8. Roundhouse at Armstrong, Kansas |
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| No. 9. General view of Lawrence, Kansas |
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| No. 10. State University of Kansas, on Mount Oread, Lawrence, Kansas |
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| No. 11. Stud Farm and Race Track, Lawrence, Kansas |
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| No. 12. Passenger Bridge over the Kansas River and Waterworks Dam in course of construction, Lawrence, Kansas |
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| No. 13. Hotel and Railway Station at Topeka, Kansas |
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| No. 14. Passenger bridge over the Kansas River, Topeka, Kansas |
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| No. 15. The Mid-Day rest. Quail shooting at St. George |
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| No. 16. The Valley of the Kansas River, looking East from St. George, Kansas |
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| No. 17. The Kansas River, looking West from St. George, Kansas |
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| No. 18. Manhattan, Kansas. Taken from the summit of Mount Prospect |
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| No. 19. Bridge over the Blue River, Manhattan, Kansas |
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| No. 20. Kansas River and Passenger Bridge looking west, Manhattan, Kansas |
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| No. 21. A Valley of the Kansas River from Mount Prospect, Manhattan, Kansas |
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| No. 22. The Texas Cattle Trade. Train of Empty Stock Cars at Junction City, Kansas |
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| No. 23. Freight Engine number 22 |
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| No. 24. Railway and Passenger Bridge over the Republican River, Junction City, Kansas |
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| No. 25. Junction of the Kansas Pacific and Junction City and Fort Kearney Railways. Junction City, Kansas |
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| No. 26. Grist Mill at Solomon City, Kansas |
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| No. 27. Falls of the Solomon River at Solomon City, Kansas |
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| No. 28. Salt Works at Solomon City, Kansas |
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| No. 29. Brookville, Kansas |
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| No. 30. Kansas Pacific Railway Roundhouse and Company's Buildings at Brookville, Kansas |
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| No. 32. Mushroom Rocks at Elm Creek |
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| No. 33. Ellsworth, the great shipping point for Texas Cattle |
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| No. 34. Stock Yards and Shutes for loading cattle at Ellsworth, Kansas |
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| No. 35. Frouher Settlements. No. 1. Wilson, 240 Miles west of the Missouri River |
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| No. 36. Arboriculture on the prairie - 2 1/2 years from the seed at Wilson, Kansas |
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| No. 37. View on the Smoky Hill River at Wilson, Captain Matthew's House and Coal Mine Bluff |
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| No. 38. Coal Canon at Wilson, Kansas |
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| No. 39. No. 2, Frontier Settlements, Bunker Hill |
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| No. 40. Valley of Cedar Creek, Bunker Hill, Kansas |
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| No. 41. The ''Burnt City'' near Bunker Hill, Kansas |
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| No. 42. Valley of the Saline River and old Buffalo Trails near Bunker Hill, Kansas |
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| No. 43. No. 3, Russell, Kansas |
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| No. 44. View on Big Creek, Russell, Kansas |
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| No. 45. Duck Shooting on Big Creek, Russell, Kansas |
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| No. 47. General view of Victoria Railway Bridge over North Fork of Victoria River |
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| No. 49. Railway Hotel at Ellis, built of stone from the Ellis Quary |
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| No. 50. Quary of White Magnesian Limestone at Ellis, Kansas |
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| No. 51. The ''Hog Back'' at Ellis, Kansas |
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| No. 52. Kansas Pacific Railway Roundhouse at Ellis, Kansas |
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| No. 53. Main Street of Ellis, Kansas |
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| No. 54. The Kansas Pacific Railway Photograph Car at Ellis, Kansas |
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| No. 55. In Case of Emergency. Snow plow |
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| No. 56. The Buffalo Hunters' Home at Sheridan, Kansas |
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| No. 57. Wallace Station and Railway Hotel 400 miles west of the Missouri River |
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| No. 58. Carson, the Northern Terminus of the Arkansas Valley R. W. |
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| No. 59. Railway Hotel and Station at Hugo, Colorado |
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| No. 60. Kansas Pacific Railway Depot at Denver, Colorado |
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| No. 61. General View of Denver looking North-West |
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| No. 62. Highland View Hotel and Denver looking East |
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| No. 63. Kansas Pacific Railway Machine Shops at Denver |
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| No. 64. Wild Buffalo in Colorado |
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| The Photographer Mr. Benecke |
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