Columbus is the second largest city and county seat of Cherokee County, Kansas, United States, 15 miles south-southwest of Pittsburg, Kansas.

At Columbus, US-160 begins a concurrency with U. S. Route 69, which goes east to Crestline, then north past Pittsburg to Frontenac, Kansas.

The Fort Smith and Western Railroad and the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railway ( bought by the Kansas City Southern Railway in 1900 ) transported the products to outside markets.

By 1895, the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad ( later known as the Kansas City Southern Railway ) laid tracks through the area, the Kedron post office moved closer to the railroad and a marble quarry, and was renamed as Marble.

In 1887, the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway built yards and tracks in Ridgeley.

Bolivar was served ( 1881 – 1947 ) by the Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern Railroad ( PS & N ) and predecessors, ( 1881 – 1893 ) by the Bradford, Eldred & Cuba Railroad System ( BE & C ), and ( 1903 – 1926 ) by the Olean, Bradford & Salamanca Railway ( OB & S ) and predecessors.

Bolivar was served ( 1881 – 1947 ) by the Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern Railroad ( PS & N ) and predecessors, ( 1881 – 1893 ) by the Bradford, Eldred & Cuba Railroad System ( BE & C ), and ( 1903 – 1926 ) by the Olean, Bradford & Salamanca Railway ( OB & S ) and predecessors.

Over the ensuing decade, the line grew through construction and acquisition of other roads, such as the Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway, to become a through route between Kansas City and Port Arthur, Texas, with the final spike being driven north of Beaumont, Texas, on September 11, 1897, the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad Company ( KCP & G ) was completed.

On February 23, 1870, the Little Miami Railroad leased in perpetuity, renewable forever, all of its assets, including the DX & P, the D & W, and the C & X, to the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway, retroactive to December 1, 1869.

* March 24-The Pittsburg and Steubenville Railroad, which eventually became the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway after a foreclosure sale, is chartered in Pennsylvania.

* February 24 – The Cleveland Short Line Railway, a subsidiary of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, opens its first section of track from Rockport to Marcy, Ohio, and a junction with the Lake Erie and Pittsburg Railway.

* Northeast Oklahoma Railroad: December 27, 1963 ( Division dissolved February 27, 1967 ; Roads involved include: NEO RR, Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri Interurban Railroad, Joplin and Pittsburg Railway and Oklahoma Traction Company )

The West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway ( WVC & P ) began as a narrow gauge line in 1880, its name and gauge changed in 1881 and in the ensuing years it opened a huge swath of timber and coal territory in the Allegheny Highlands of West Virginia.

* May 1, 1873: Ashtabula, Youngstown and Pittsburg Rail Road ; Ashtabula and Pittsburgh Railway ( merged into the AN & Y June 16, 1887 )

While attending Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg ( located in southeastern Kansas ) on a football scholarship, he became interested in acting.

* Pittsburg, Kansas, Crawford County, founded 1876

* Pittsburg Township, Mitchell County, Kansas

* Pittsburg State University, a NCAA Division II public university located in Pittsburg, Kansas

Pittsburg is a city in Crawford County, in southeastern Kansas, United States.

A relic of the city's coal mining days was the Pittsburg & Midway Coal Company, founded in 1885, and one of the oldest continuously running coal companies in the United States ( even though its headquarters moved several years ago to Denver, Colorado after the Kansas mines closed ).

The city has a rich cultural heritage from many Southern and Eastern European mine workers who settled in and around Pittsburg and Southeastern Kansas.

Pittsburg is a center of broadcast media for southeastern Kansas.

* Pittsburg, Kansas in the Kansas Encyclopedia

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* Megalo Mastoras and His Work 1347 A. D., translated by Stephen M. Dickey and Doc Roc in The Prince of Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Short Stories, edited by Radmila J. Gorup and Nadežda Obradović, Pittsburg ( PA ): University of Pittsburg Press, 1998.

Coach H. W. " Bill " Hargiss ' " Presbies " are said to have featured the play in a 17 – 0 victory over Washburn University and in a 107 – 0 destruction of Pittsburg State University.

* Amtrak station code ACA: Antioch – Pittsburg ( Amtrak station ) in California

* WEPG 910 AM – Contemporary Country ( Licensed to South Pittsburg, TN )

* WUUQ 97. 3 – Classic Country Q-97. 3 / 99. 3 ( Licensed to South Pittsburg, TN )

The Pittsburg / Bay Point – SFO Line line of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system serves the surrounding area using the Pleasant Hill / Contra Costa Centre Station with an adjacent to Interstate 680.

The BART Pittsburg / Bay Point – SFO / Millbrae line and Richmond – Millbrae line serve the Millbrae Intermodal Station.

Pittsburg is part of the Berlin, NH – VT Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Richburg was served ( 1881 – 1890 and c. 1906-1946 ) by the Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern Railroad ( PS & N ) and predecessors, and ( 1881 – 1885 ) by the Bradford, Eldred & Cuba Railroad System ( BE & C ) The early PS & N predecessors and the BE & C were 36 " narrow-gauge railroads while the PS & N was a standard-gauge railroad.

The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6 – 7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee.

* 1921 – acquires the Pittsburg High Voltage Insulator Company

* Dennis Winston – defensive lineman for the Pittsburg Steelers and New Orleans Saints.

Lee Allen ( July 2, 1927 – October 18, 1994 ) was an American tenor saxophone player born in Pittsburg, Kansas.

During the existence of pre-war Czechoslovakia ( 1918 – 1939 ), Slovakia received no autonomy within Czechoslovakia, although extensive autonomy had been promised to the Slovaks before the creation of Czechoslovakia in the Pittsburg Agreement.

* Coupar Angus is the birthplace of Jock Sutherland, coach for the Pittsburg Steelers 1946 – 1947.

**** Grand Rabbi Yosef Leifer of Pittsburg ( 1891 – 1966 ), author of Tzidkas Yosef, son of Rabbi Yissachar Dov Ber ( Bertche ) of Nadvorna-Satmar

The Lafayette station along with the Orinda's BART station are on the Pittsburg / Bay Point – SFO / Millbrae line.