Overview This collection is a payroll ledger for the Kansas City Suburban Belt Railroad Company for 1896 and 1897. The Belt line was the beginning section of what became the Kansas City Southern Railway. While KC Southern is written at the head of this ledger, the Kansas City Suburban Belt Railroad Company did not become the Kansas City Southern Railway until three years after this ledger was completed. The pages of the payroll ledger document jobs, names, and amount of pay for Belt line workers....