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Midland Railway settles three lawsuits, uncertain when tourist rides will resume | News, Sports, Jobs - Lawrence Journal-World: news, information, headlines and events in Lawrence, Kansas

photo by: Elvyn Jones The platform at Midland Railway in Baldwin City is shown on July 1, 2018. The railroad will offer Polar Express rides beginning this holiday season. A once-popular tourist railroad in Baldwin City has settled an unpaid tax bill and a pair of lawsuits, but its future remains cloudy with no date for when train rides may resume. The Baldwin City & Southern Railroad and its fellow nonprofit railway association also continue to face nearly $1 million in legal claims between the two entities, including a more than $300,000 dispute with the city of Baldwin City over a government-sponsored loan program the railway used. In addition, new cases continue to arise, with a ruling coming down last week against the railway related to back pay for employees.

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KDOT shuts down safe route to school with closing of Midland Railway crossing | News, Sports, Jobs - Lawrence Journal-World: news, information, headlines and events in Lawrence, Kansas

KDOT shuts down safe route to school with closing of Midland Railway crossing | News, Sports, Jobs - Lawrence Journal-World: news, information, headlines and events in Lawrence, Kansas
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Midland Railway s legal woes grow with Douglas County, Colorado filings seeking nearly $1 million | News, Sports, Jobs - Lawrence Journal-World: news, information, headlines and events in Lawrence, Kansas

photo by: Elvyn Jones New passenger cars are lined up Jan. 4, 2020, near the old Santa Fe depot in Baldwin City. The cars are among the seven that the Midland Railway wholly owned for-profit subsidiary Baldwin City & Southern Railroad purchased in the last two months after receiving a community development block grant. Legal woes continue to mount for Baldwin City’s nonprofit Midland Railway and its two for-profit subsidiaries as recent lawsuits in Douglas County and Colorado seek recovery of nearly $1 million. The Baldwin City government filed suit Nov. 30 against Midland, a tourist railroad, and its subsidiaries Baldwin City & Southern Railroad and Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston Railroad, seeking to recover $321,059 in community development block grant funds that the city secured in December 2019 for the railroad through the Kansas Department of Commerce.

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