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sjg from Lubbock, Tx on 1/14/2009 6:44:14 AM:

My Daddy's grandfather, sirnamed "Gum" was a conductor on the MKT out of the South Texas-Houston area. This would have been around the 1920's-1930's. My dad was born in 1922 and he remembers his grandfather actually working for the railroad, and remembers being quite impressed with his "conductor's watch." My dad recalls "riding the train" from Houston to Galveston. This would have been the MKT. Evidently his grandfather could get them passes. Was there a branch line that ran down to or toward Corpus Christi at that time? Anybody know?
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Trek on 1/14/2009 8:25:14 AM:

Wikipedia has some good MKT info. It does not mention Corpus Christi though.

steve from saint louis, mo on 1/14/2009 10:08:40 AM:

This link will get you to the 1983 Katy Railroad Map.

http://www.katyrailroad.org/map.htm

The 1904 Railroad Map is also available link at the bottom of the page above. It shows the link to Hannibal, MO for instance, that was abandoned long before the 1983 map came out.

Looking at the maps, in 1904 and 1983 a Katy Link was active to San Antonio, TX, which if you wanted to go to Corpus Cristi, would have been a logical point to get on another line to go to Corpus Cristi. What that line is or was, I do not know.

Linda Hunter from Sedalia Katy Depot, MO on 1/15/2009 9:22:32 AM:

In answer to your question. I pulled out the book we sell in the store called the Katy
Railroad and the Last Frontier and looked at the map of the Katy Lines in 1923 we also sell
and there is no direct "Katy" line that ran to Corpus Christi from Galveston. I too am
assuming you would transfer to another railroad line to make that journey, but looking at
the map and adjoining railroads I think that connection would have come out of Houston
at that time and not Galveston as the map shows no other railroads leaving Galveston.
We have some historic information on the Katy posted on our website
www.sedaliakatydepot.com.

Dick Gabriel from Marietta, GA on 1/22/2009 9:50:17 PM:

The most likely connection from the Katy to Corpus Christi would be
either Union Pacific from San Antonio or UP, BNSF (ATSF in earlier
days), or Kansas City Southern from Houston. Of course these lines
had different names in the past, just as ATSF and BN merged to form
BNSF.

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