M-K-T Railroad’s “Katy Flyer Route” — 1902
by Paula Bosse
by Paula Bosse
Ah, Texas rail travel in the corset-and-carpet-bag days, from a 1902 issue of Dallas’ Southern Mercury newspaper. Sign me up.
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Sources & Notes
Color images from a 1900 MKT timetable, offered a while back on eBay, here.
An entertaining history of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (with lots of wonderful photos) can be found here.
A history of the railroads in Dallas can be found here.
And the Handbook of Texas entry for the M-K-T (known familiarly as the “Katy” railroad) can be found here.
See another post featuring the Katy Flyer — “Leaving Dallas on the Katy Flyer — ca. 1914” — here.
Click pictures to see larger images.
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Do you think there were Harvey Houses on the Katy as well as on the Santa Fe? Fifty-cent meals should have been pretty decent.
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Katy had its own meal stations not associated with Fred Harvey.
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Harvey Houses were exclusive to the Santa Fe.
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Are reprints of the posters available for purchase?
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Afraid not. But these would make great posters!
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