Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Electronic Archive

This web page is dedicated to archiving historical information about the MKT (Missouri, Kansas and Texas) railway. Here you will find scans of train orders, time tables, company memorandums, and other historical information.

New This Week:

• November 10, 2008: Some of the pages load slowly because of the way I have included the graphics. I have begun to change this to speed up the pages. Please be patient!

• October 28, 2008: Letter from MKT to W. Walters of Walters, Inc. added to the correspondence page. 

• October 1, 2008: The MKT Archive Went Online for the First Time

The Archive:

Advertising
Advertising Brochures
Blank Forms
Clearance Forms
Correspondence
Employee Instruction Manuals
Employee Rule Books
Employee Time Tables
Passenger Time Tables
Photographs
Public Freight Schedules
Rate Change Notices
Reports of Train Movements
Technical Articles
Train Orders
Waybills

Would you like to help?

• Submission of archive material

• Help with typos, errors, and historical information

Who is running this thing?

My name is Alan M. Polansky. I am a Professor of Statistics at Northern Illinois University. I have no real railroad experince except fond memories of the MKT railroad from my childhood. I grew up in San Antonio near Interstate 35 where numerous MKT trains would head in and out of San Antonio. When we visited relatives, they all lived near the MKT main line of the Hillsboro Subdivision (West, Waco, Bruceville, etc.). I miss seeing six or eight SD40-2s, GP38s and GP40s, all in yellow and green (or in white and red if you were lucky) screaming through town as they pulled their load. 

Archive Statistics:

• The archive contains a total of 200 individual scanned images

• The archive contains 11 advertisements (12 scanned pages)

• The archive contains 1 advertising brochure (6 scanned pages)

• The archive contains 1 blank form (2 scanned images)

• The archive contains 1 clearance form (1 scanned opage)

• The archive contains 1 item of official MKT correspondence (1 scanned page)

• The archive contains 1 employee instruction manual (35 scanned pages)

• The archive contains 2 employee rule books (21 scanned images)

• The archive contains 1 employee time table (44 scanned pages)

• The archive contains 2 photographs (2 scanned pages)

• The archive contains 3 passenger time tables (28 scanned pages)

• The archive contains 1 public frieght schedule (6 scanned pages)

• The archive contains 1 rate change notice (1 scanned page)

• The archive contains 9 reports of train movements (9 scanned pages)

• The archive contains 3 technical article (8 scanned pages)

• The archive contains 13 train orders (13 scanned pages)

• The archive contains 3 waybills (3 scanned pages)

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This page was last updated on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 06:57:06 PM