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Three Forks History: Many territory towns created by railroads

Muskogee Phoenix 17 Oct 2021
Before the advent of the railroad in Indian Territory, there were only a few true towns in existence ... When the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad (MKT) began construction of a line through Indian Territory from Kansas to Texas, its officials expected to be given the same amount of land ... Other railroads also accomplished what the MKT had begun.
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Notable people of Walker County: James Elkins

The Huntsville Item 26 Sep 2021
... to the University of Texas, where he received his Bachelor of Laws in 1901 ... He served as a director on about 10 different banks and companies, which included the District Federal Reserve Bank, American General Insurance Company and the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railroad.
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Paddle, pedal, repeat: Mighty Mo, Katy Trail combine for grand adventure

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 21 Sep 2021
Bike riders and people on foot on the Katy Trail now travel the former bed of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, fondly called the MKT, or Katy ... Old railroad bridges are still intact and cross all manner of small streams that flow into the nearby Missouri River that's sometimes called "Big Muddy" or "Mighty Mo.".
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Union Pacific Big Boy steam locomotive attracts crowds

Donaldsonville Chief 21 Aug 2021
The locomotive remained stationary on the tracks at the Railroad Avenue station for about a half an hour before chugging along to the east ... From the Steam Shop in Cheyenne, the Big Boy started a journey across several states, which includes Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, and Wyoming.
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Lakeside Ashland will continue development; Katy Trail completed

Columbia Missourian 19 Jul 2021
After 34 years, the popular Katy Trail across Missouri is finally complete. The Katy Trail was built on top of the abandoned Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad after the last train ran in 1986, and earlier this year it was finally completed.
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After 34 years, the popular Katy Trail across Missouri is finally complete

Columbia Missourian 14 Jul 2021
The Katy Trail, designated as a state park, is now complete, with all of the appropriate rights of way, said Melanie Smith, the Katy Trail coordinator for Missouri State Parks. The trail was built on top of the abandoned Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad after the last train ran in 1986 ... You could ride two long, hard days from Kansas City to St.
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Backroads: Belton Railroad featured ‘Tiger-Wildcat’ locomotive

Killeen Daily Herald 04 Jul 2021
and his six-mile-long Belton Railroad, hailed during its lifetime as the shortest rail line in Texas, but, no doubt, one with the most school spirit ... By February 1961, the company purchased about seven miles of railroad between south Temple and downtown Belton from the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway; operations officially began in June 1961.
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Railroad roots: Trains part of Temple’s 140-year history

TDT News 29 Jun 2021
A second railroad company — the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (the Katy) — built a line through Temple and crossed the Santa Fe tracks, Ordner said ... A control tower — designated as Tower 24 by the Texas Railroad Commission — was built to direct train traffic through the interchange.
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Unearthing history: Flat Branch Park project will expose long-covered section of stream

Columbia Missourian 24 Jun 2021
Another section of Flat Branch is about to be reclaimed as part of the park expansion underway at Broadway and Providence Road ... That stopped when the Katy Station was built alongside the new Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, and Flat Branch eventually became little more than a place to dump trash ... That’s in large part due to old building habits ... .
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CATHEY: “The Old Foot Sore and Weary” – the Oklahoma Cotton Train

McAlester News-Capital 21 May 2021
Missouri Kansas & Texas ... Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf RY ... Business on the road had fallen off to almost nothing and the final blow came from another railroad, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, popularly known as the Katy, which refused to renew the FS&W trackage rights between Fallis and Oklahoma City.
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Three Forks History: Muskogee will turn 150 in 2022

Muskogee Phoenix 12 Apr 2021
It was New Year’s Day when the Missouri-Kansas & Texas Railroad located its primary depot in Indian Territory at a spot a few miles south of its bridge over the Arkansas River and along the Texas Road. A railroad surveyor drove the stakes for the location of this depot and within days a tent and shack community had sprung up around it.
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From track to trail: Converted railway shows off small-town Missouri

Lake Sun Leader 27 Feb 2021
The Katy Trail in Missouri is the longest developed rail-trail in the United States. Its 240 miles of former railroad passage and more than 30 access points mean the trail can offer a different experience each time you visit ... The trail was built on what was the corridor of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, nicknamed the K-T.
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Photos: New vintage railroad car rolls into Stewartstown providing handicapped access

York Daily Record 19 Jan 2021
A transfer caboose that was originally used by the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad will accommodate handicapped riders on the Stewartstown Railroad ....
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Bob D. Phillips

Jackson County Times 07 Dec 2020
Bob was born on March 3, 1930, in Burkburnett, Texas, the son of Edwin Lafayette Phillips and Addie Mae Cantrell ... Bob worked for the Missouri, Kansas Texas railroad for more than 30 years starting off as a lineman and eventually as the head of the communication and signals department.
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