Kirksville, Missouri

===Transportation===

====Transit====
Kirksville is served by Kirk-Tran, which provides residents with a deviated fixed-route transit system and demand response service. The deviated fixed-route bus service is a single loop route operating hourly from 7:00am to 6:00pm Monday-Thursday, 7:00am to 9:00pm on Fridays and 9:00am to 9:00pm on Saturdays. There is no service on Sundays.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kirksvillecity.com/kirktran|title=Kirk Tran}}</ref>

====Railroads====

Kirksville, by way of [[La Plata, Missouri|La Plata]], is serviced by [[Amtrak]]'s [[Southwest Chief]] which runs along the [[BNSF Railway]].  The distance from [[Truman State University]] to [[La Plata (Amtrak station)]] is approximately {{convert|12.5|mi|km}}.

Kirksville once had two operational railroads that ran through town. The east-west rail line was originally incorporated as the Quincy, Missouri & Pacific Railroad, which was renamed several times during financial restructuring and changing hands numerous times, until in 1897 it became the Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City Railroad. Financial problems continued, and it was operated by the [[Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad]] after 1903 and later absorbed by that company, which in turn became [[Burlington Northern]] in 1970. The portion of the line that ran west of Kirksville towards Green City was abandoned and eventually torn down in the early 1950s. The portion of the line that ran east of town towards Edina, Labelle, and West Quincy was scrapped in 1982 - 1983, after the [[Staggers Rail Act]] deregulated the rail industry. The depot which serviced along the Burlington Northern in Kirksville still stands along Elson Street just north of Cottonwood Street and plans are that it will be renovated.

Kirksville's other railroad, the [[Wabash Railroad]], became the [[Norfolk and Western Railway]] in October, 1964. This north-south line later became the [[Norfolk Southern Railway]] in 1982 after N&W merged with [[Southern Railway (U.S.)|Southern Railway]]. In April 1992, the last official NS train ran the line between Albia, IA and Moberly, MO as the railroad announced it would abandon the line due to a loss in profit. During the summer of 1993, the railroad reopened to train traffic as the floods of the midwest affected lines around the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Trains continued to run the line until 1995. After failed attempts from buyers wanting to purchase the line and turn it into a shortline railroad, work began on tearing down the railroad from Moberly, MO northward toward La Plata, MO where it has a connection with the BNSF Railway and from Moulton, IA southward toward La Plata, MO. The portion of the line from Moulton, IA northward towards Albia was purchased by the [[Appanoose County Community Railroad]]. In late September 1997, the tracks through Kirksville were finally torn out, leaving the city without a rail line. The project to tear out the abandoned line was completed by the end of 1997.

====Aviation====

The City of Kirksville operates the [[Kirksville Regional Airport]] (formerly Clarence Cannon Airport), four miles (6&nbsp;km) south of the city by the village of [[Millard, Missouri|Millard]].

In 1952, the [[United States Air Force]] opened a [[radar]] base that was home to the 790th Radar Squadron, an Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, in [[Sublette, Missouri|Sublette]], about {{convert|10|mi|km|abbr=on}} north of Kirksville. The Air Force inactivated the 790th Radar Squadron in 1968. The [[Federal Aviation Administration]] took over running the radar and most of the surrounding {{convert|78.51|acre|m2}} were given to [[Truman State University|Northeast Missouri State University]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dnr.mo.gov/alpd/hwp/ws-special/ffs-dod.htm |title=Federal Facilities Section: Department of Defense Sites |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060724000040/http://www.dnr.mo.gov/alpd/hwp/ws-special/ffs-dod.htm |archive-date=2006-07-24 |access-date=25 January 2013}}</ref> The current radar, an Air Route Surveillance Radar - Model 3, is a long-range radar that feeds data to air traffic control centers that control aircraft flying over the region.

Four fatal airplane accidents have occurred near Kirksville:
#On May 6, 1935, [[TWA Flight 6]], carrying Senator [[Bronson Cutting]] of [[New Mexico]], crashed south of Kirksville, killing him and four others. As a result, Congress created the [[Civil Aeronautics Administration (United States)|Civil Aeronautics Administration]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trumanindex.com/media/paper607/news/2004/10/21/News/Kirksville.History-775771.shtml |title=Kirksville History: Whitney McFerron |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927195135/http://www.trumanindex.com/media/paper607/news/2004/10/21/News/Kirksville.History-775771.shtml |archive-date=2007-09-27 |access-date=25 January 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/197.html |title=Records of the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) - (Record Group 197) |access-date=25 January 2013}}</ref>
#On May 22, 1962, [[Continental Airlines Flight 11]], heading to [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]] from [[Chicago]] under heavy weather, was brought down by a [[dynamite]] explosion northwest of Kirksville. Some aviation historians consider this the first act of aviation [[terrorism]] in history.
#On October 20, 2004, [[Corporate Airlines Flight 5966]] (now [[RegionsAir]]) crashed just south of Kirksville Regional Airport, killing 13 of 15 passengers and crew.
#On November 5, 2013, a Piper PA-32 crashed 3 miles southeast of Kirksville Regional Airport on its final approach, killing both passengers aboard.