It was to have one division linking Kansas City to St. Joseph, a distance of 52 miles, and another smaller line, 27.7 miles, to the spa community of Excelsior Springs. The desirability of the Clay County route was the fact the steam Wabash RR was carrying 250,000 passengers annually to the Springs.
Born June 21, 1979, native Minnesotan actor Chris Pratt scored his first big break on television as the troubled physician's son Bright Abbott on the WB series drama Everwood, opposite Treat Williams and others, and segued into film with a prominent role in the biting satire Strangers with Candy (2005) alongside Amy Sedaris and Stephen Colbert.
Mini Bio (1). Selena Marie Gomez was born and raised in Grand Prairie, Texas, to Mandy Teefey, who is of part Italian descent, and Ricardo Gomez, who is of Mexican descent and originally from New Mexico. Her parents divorced in 1997. Giving birth to Selena at 16, her mom Mandy recalls living paycheck-to-paycheck.