The Katy Building, Commerce Street
by Paula Bosse
“The Katy Serves the Southwest…” (click for larger image)
by Paula Bosse
A couple of days ago I posted a photo of an M-K-T train leaving Dallas and, today, coincidentally, I came across a photo of the Katy Building, the railroad’s headquarters, at Commerce and Market. This photo shows Commerce looking west toward the Old Red Courthouse from Austin Street. An interurban car is heading east.
See the same view today, via Google Street View, here.
A photo I really love — which shows a view from about the same time looking east on Commerce — can be seen in a previous post, “Commerce & Record Streets — 1946,” here.
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Photo from Flickr, here.
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Flashback : Dallas 
Good photos. One with an interurban and one with a streetcar!
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The Texas Special was a passenger train that operated between St. Louis and San Antonio.
Here is a Texas Special booklet highlighting the diesel powered streamliner that started service in 1948: http://i.imgur.com/2ONcH9c.jpg
Until 1948 the Bluebonnet served the same route as the Texas Special. After that it operated between Kansas City and San Antonio: http://i.imgur.com/GAqTEgC.jpg
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