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The Katy Trail State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Missouri that contains the Katy Trail, the country's longest continuous recreational rail trail. [1] It runs 240 miles (390 km), largely along the northern bank of the Missouri River , in the right-of-way of the former Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad . [ 2 ]
On June 7, 1917, westbound Rock Island passenger train number 23 collided head-on with a freight train at the tunnel, killing the engineer of No. 23, and injuring several others. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In 1963 the floor of the tunnel was lowered by 8 to 10 inches (200 to 250 mm) to allow it to accommodate autoracks .
The Columbia Terminal Railroad (reporting mark CT) [1] is a local, short-line, freight railroad in Boone County, Missouri, owned by and serving the city of Columbia, Missouri. The railroad runs from Columbia to the Norfolk Southern Railway mainline in Centralia , using the former Columbia Branch of the Wabash Railroad .
The Rock Island Spur of Katy Trail State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Missouri that is 47-mile (76 km) rails to trails hiking and biking trail. Work on the trail was completed and the trail was opened on December 10, 2016 . [ 1 ]
The Columbia station, also known as Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railroad Depot or Katy Station, was built in 1909 by the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad in downtown Columbia, Missouri. The station was one of two train stations serving Columbia in the 20th century, the other being the Wabash Railroad Station and Freight House constructed the ...
The U.P. sold the track to the Missouri Eastern in 2021 and the Central Midland ceased operations. The railroad owns part of its line and leases the remainder. In 2021, the Missouri Eastern bought from V&S Railway, LLC, 42.89 miles (69.02 km) of track between milepost 19.0 near Vigus in Maryland Heights and milepost 61.89 near Union.
The Cotton Belt Freight Depot is a former freight depot of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway in the Near North Riverfront neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri.It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2004 and named "Best Old Building" by the Riverfront Times, a weekly newspaper in St. Louis.