After three years and the end of the war, he landed in Kansas, working as a track section foreman for the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, commonly referred to as the Katy. Frederick helped build rail ...

Bridges: Jay Gould put Texas railroads on track. ... In 1879, he took control of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, giving him effective control of one-sixth of the nation’s rails.

HIGGINSVILLE, Mo. (KCTV) - A 22-year-old man is dead after he was hit by a Kansas City locomotive while walking along the railroad tracks west of Higginsville. The Missouri State Highway Patrol ...

The state park was built on the former path of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (MKT) railroad which runs 240 miles long. It spans nearly the full width of Missouri and is the nation's longest continuous ...

The poor design of a rural Missouri railroad crossing contributed to the fatal Amtrak derailment in 2022 that killed four people and injured 146 others, the National Transportation Safety Board ...

Railroad wrecks of the week:¶ In Armstrong, Okla., the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad's Texas Special ran through a signal in a dense fog and plowed into a freight locomotive. An engineer ...

Concrete is pouring for the first phase of a rail-trail project along the railbed of the abandoned Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad. The project, bid at $4.2 million, is partially funded by a $2.3 ...

Katy Trail State Park is celebrating its 33rd anniversary. The corridor of the former Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, better known as the KATY, was made possible by the National Trails System Act ...

The mile-and-a-half-long trail is being built in space surrounding a former railroad track: the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad. That’s where “Mokan” comes from — from shortened parts of ...

Built on the former corridor of the Missouri-Kansas Texas Railroad, the trail features 26 trailheads between Clinton and Machens, in addition to four fully-restore railroad depots.