A Severy Connection

[W. Gray]

St. Louis, Jan. 13—The Kansas extension of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad made connection yesterday with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Road, at Severy, Kan. Permanent connection with the latter road will be made at Emporia, Kan., in a short time when St. Louis will have another through line to Colorado and New Mexico.

New York Times, January 14, 1880


The "Frisco" was an east-west line that went through the northeast corner of Elk County.

According to one story in the Elk County history book, Howard tried hard to get the line, which in Elk County would have gone through Amy (Busby), Howard, and Western Park, but lost the line to Severy.

In another story, at a later time the road had been surveyed through Busby causing a spike in the Busby population. (Possibly a branch that would have ended in Western Park.) But the road never came through.

The Frisco crossing connection at Severy was with the Howard Branch of the Santa Fe.

The Howard Branch and the Frisco at Severy used the same depot owned by Frisco—shades of a Union Station of the larger cities.