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 (April 20, 2009): 

• Two new train orders from 1950 and 1951
• Train Location Line-Up Instructions (In Employee Insturction Manuals)
• Passenger advertisement about service to Mexico via Eagle Pass
  
• Photograph of Steam Engine No. 411in Dallas, Texas

The Archive:

Advertising
Advertising Brochures
Annual Reports
Blank Forms
Clearance Forms
Correspondence
Employee Instruction Manuals
Employee Rule Books
Employee Time Tables
Menus
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 experience 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! 

Archive Statistics:

• The archive contains a total of 400 individual scanned images

• The archive contains 18 advertisements (20 scanned pages)

• The archive contains 1 annual report (14 scanned pages)

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

• The archive contains 2 blank forms (4 scanned images)

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

• The archive contains 3 items of official MKT correspondence (4 scanned pages)

• The archive contains 3 employee instruction manual (59 scanned pages)

• The archive contains 2 employee rule books (88 scanned images)

• The archive contains 3 employee time tables (61 scanned pages)

• The archive contains 1 dining car menu (2 scanned pages)

• The archive contains 17 photographs (17 scanned pages)

• The archive contains 6 passenger time tables (64 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 4 technical articles (11 scanned pages)

• The archive contains 24 train orders (24 scanned pages)

• The archive contains 3 waybills (3 scanned pages)