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The MKT Depot or MKT Railroad Depot is a steam locomotive depot located in Katy, Texas. The Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad services commenced railway operations in 1894 and diminished the rail transport service by 1957 for the connection junction at Katy, Texas.
South Shore Express: New York Central: New York, New York–Chicago, Illinois (different endpoints in different years) [1948] 1928–1960 South Shore Express: Pere Marquette: Chicago, Illinois–Grand Rapids, Michigan [1920] 1920–1927 South Shore Express: Long Island Rail Road: New York, New York–Montauk, New York [1930] 1928–1941; 1947 ...
Katy took the diesels off the train route in Waco for servicing and again used a Pacific class 4-6-2 steam locomotive, usually their Pacific 383, to take the train into San Antonio. The Texas Special proved to be so popular that the two railroads soon had to purchase additional equipment. Two Alco PA-1 diesels were purchased by MKT in 1949.
"The Opening of the Great Southwest: A Brief History of the Origin and Development of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Better Known as The Katy" - Published: May 1970 by the M-K-T R.R. Co. Goen, Steve Allen (2006). Miss Katy in the Lone Star State. Masterson, V. V. (1952). The Katy Railroad and the Last Frontier. Starr, Timothy (2024).
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A train at the station in 1981. The Chicago, South Shore and South Bend was one of the last interurban railroads to operate profitably in the United States. Aggressive management, led by financier Samuel Insull, reconceptualized the South Shore as the linchpin of a public transportation network operating throughout the industrialized Indiana Dunes region of Indiana.
Most of the victims’ remains were found along Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach – also located on the South Shore of Long Island – between December 2010 and April 2011. Show comments Advertisement
There is a unique arrangement at the station as far as fares are concerned: although this station is a South Shore Line stop and the tracks are owned by NICTD, the station and the parking lots are actually owned by Metra and thus subject to Metra's fares, because the station is within the state of Illinois. Thus, when the South Shore Line ...