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 ...

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 ...

When the Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad abandoned the lines across the center of Missouri in 1986, the state of Missouri initiated the country's largest rails-to-trails project and replaced the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

The railway expanded up from Corsicana to Dallas in 1872 and eventually met with the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway from the north, connecting Texas to the nation's rail system.