Missouri Kansas Texas

MKT Crowder 1981 John F. Bjorklund photo Center for Railroad Photography and Art
Crowder, OK 1981.  John F. Bjorklund photo, Center for Railroad Photography and Art.

Freight Schedules

MKT Condensed Freight Schedules 12-2-1945
MKT Merchandise Car Schedules 2-1-1951
MKT Freight Train Schedules 2-1-1975

Also see the Superintendents’ Association of Kansas City Joint Freight Time Card 67 for trains departing Kansas City in 1942.

Dispatcher Sheets

See the Fred Frailey Collection: MKT.

Timetables

MKT South Texas Division 26-A 6-1-1952
MKT System 1 1-26-1975
MKT System 2 10-26-1975

Customers

Wyatt Metal & Boiler, Houston Texas

Freight Consists

HL Bendure Conductor Book 2-19 to 3-25-1944 – Conductor Bendure worked through trains between Parsons and Muskogee.  Many of the trains consist almost entirely of tank cars, with much of it from Texas City.

Other Resources

The September 1986 Trains has a Fred Frailey article about Texas train order operations in 1985.

Wx4.org has many MKT timetables here and here and a condensed 1939 freight schedule contained in the public timetable here.

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