The mid 1880's witnessed a struggle between the communities of Paxico Kansas and Newbury Kansas to woo the coming railroad. Paxico eventually won out and the town was officially laid out in 1886.
In 1887, the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway built a main line from Topeka Kansas through Paxico Kansas to Herington Kansas.
The Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway was foreclosed in 1891 and taken over by Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway, which shut down in 1980 and reorganized as Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad and merged in 1988 with Missouri Pacific Railroad which merged in 1997 with Union Pacific Railroad.
The old depot can still be seen standing on the Mill Creek Campgrounds site 90 miles west of Kansas City Kansas, just a short hop north of Interstate 70 of exit #333.
(submitted by phOTOGRAPH_oF_tHE_dAY on 07/05/11)
