MISSOURI KANSAS & TEXAS RAILWAY - MKT KATY LINES - SET OF 2 ALAMO SERVICE PLATES

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RAILROAD CHINA-MKT DINNER CHARGER PLATES-(ALAMO)- Up for auction are 2 stunning dinner charger plates from the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railway. It is the ALAMO pattern and each is approximately 11" wide. One has a border of green and the other is cobalt blue.  The design was produced to commemorate the Texas Centennial in 1936. Both dish  backs are  marked, "Ye Olde Ivory Buffalo China" " however only the plate with the green border has the railroad marking of : C.I.X." "Made Expressly for M.K.& T. R.R.". Condition is mint for both with no use marks, chips, cracks, or repairs.
The cobalt blue border plate is NOT marked with the railroad initials.
The
Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railway
(
reporting mark
MKT
) is a former Class I railroad company in the United States, with its last headquarters in Dallas, Texas. Established in 1865 under the name Union Pacific Railway, Southern Branch, it came to serve an extensive rail network in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri. In 1988, it merged with the
Missouri Pacific Railroad
; today, it is part of
Union Pacific Railroad
.
In the 1890s the MKT was commonly referred to as "the K-T", because for a time it was the Kansas-Texas division of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and "KT" was its abbreviation in
timetables
as well as its stock exchange symbol. This soon evolved into the nickname "
the Katy
".
[1]
The Katy was the first
railroad
to enter
Texas
from the north. Eventually, the Katy's core system linked
Parsons
,
Fort Scott
,
Junction City
,
Olathe
, and
Kansas City
,
Kansas
;
Kansas City
,
Joplin
,
Columbia
,
Jefferson City
, and
St. Louis
,
Missouri
;
Tulsa
; Wagoner;
[2]
and
Oklahoma City
,
Oklahoma
;
Dallas
,
Fort Worth
,
Waco
,
Temple
,
Austin
,
San Antonio
,
Houston
, and
Galveston
,
Texas
. An additional mainline between Fort Worth and
Salina, Kansas
, was added in the 1980s after the collapse of the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
; this line was operated as the
Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad
(OKKT). Former Rock Island trackage rights acquired by the Katy also gave it access to
Lincoln
and
Omaha
,
Nebraska
and
Council Bluffs
,
Iowa
.
At the end of 1970, MKT operated 2,623 miles of road and 3,765 miles of track.
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway was incorporated in May 1870 in
Junction City, Kansas
. The company received government land grants to build a supply railroad connecting the frontier military bases of
Fort Riley
,
Fort Gibson
, and
Fort Scott
; and eventually
Fort Worth
, as well as establishing connections with other railroads that served
Fort Leavenworth
and
Fort Smith
— but its broader ambitions were to connect Chicago and New Orleans.
[3]
Upon its incorporation, the MK&T acquired the Union Pacific Railway, Southern Branch (est. 1865) and its 182 miles (293 km) of track in Kansas.
[4]
At the time of its incorporation, consolidations were also made with the Labette & Sedalia Railway Co. and the Neosho Valley & Holden Railway Co.; MK&T also acquired the
Tebo & Neosho Railroad Co.
, the St. Louis & Santa Fe Railroad Co., and the Hannibal & Central Missouri Railroad Co. Combined with the UP Southern Branch, these small, newly built railroads formed the foundation on which the Katy built.
In the late 1890s, a subsidiary once called the Missouri-Kansas-Eastern railroad was established to run from existing MKT rails approaching Kansas City into St Louis via the Missouri River basin
.
Congress had passed acts promising land grants to the first railroad to reach the Kansas border via the
Neosho Valley
. The Katy portion of the former UP Southern Branch, which had begun building from Fort Riley just north of Junction City, Kansas, was in a heated competition for the prize. On June 6, 1870, Katy workers laid the first rails across the Kansas border, winning the race. Congress' promised land grants were never made, as the courts overturned the grants because the land was in
Indian Territory
and was the property of the Indian tribes.
The Katy continued its push southward, laying track through the territory and reaching Texas in 1872, acquiring other small railroads while extending its reach to Dallas in 1886, Waco in 1888, Houston in April 1893, and to San Antonio in 1901.
When the Katy railroad reached Houston, its joint ownership of the
Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad
gave it immediate access to the Port of
Galveston
and its ocean-going shipping on the
Gulf of Mexico
.
A Katy train was robbed by the
Dalton Gang
on July 14, 1892, at
Adair, Oklahoma
, in what was then Indian Territory.
[6]
The gang got away after a gun battle.
[6]
In 1896, as a publicity stunt set up by
William Crush
, the Katy crashed two locomotives head-on, pulling loaded trains, at a site that came to be known thereafter as
Crush, Texas
. The collision occurred before more than 40,000 spectators, three of whom died (and several were injured) by debris from the exploding boilers.
Ragtime
composer and pianist
Scott Joplin
, who was performing in the area at the time, commemorated the event in his piano piece, "The Great Crush Collision March" (which he dedicated to the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway).
[7]
In 1911, the MKT purchased railroad lines held by industrialist
Joseph A. Kemp
of
Wichita Falls
. These included the
Wichita Falls Railway
, an 18-mile line between Wichita Falls and
Henrietta
in
Clay County
; the Wichita Falls and Northwest Railway Company of Texas; and the Wichita Falls and Wellington, which provided service into
Wellington
in
Collingsworth County
. Kemp's brother-in-law,
Frank Kell
, was a partner in some of these lines, including the
Wichita Falls and Southern Railroad
, which remained a Kemp-Kell property until it was abandoned in 1954.
[8]
In 1923, the Katy acquired another Kemp/Kell property, the
Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway
, which extended from Wichita Falls to
Forgan
in the
Oklahoma Panhandle
. The route to Forgan, the Northwestern District of the MKT Railway, was abandoned in January 1973,
[9]
and
Altus
, Oklahoma, became the northern terminus of the branch. The remaining 77-mile link between Wichita Falls and Altus was absorbed in 1991 by the
Wichita, Tillman and Jackson Railway
.
[10]
The Katy acquired the Beaver, Meade, and Englewood Railroad in 1931.
[11]
This trackage, like the length between Altus and Forgan, was abandoned in January 1973.
[9]
From 1915 until January 4, 1959, the Katy, in a joint venture with the
St. Louis – San Francisco Railway
(popularly known as the
Frisco
), operated the
Texas Special
from St. Louis to Dallas, Ft. Worth, and San Antonio. It sported rail cars with names including
Sam Houston
,
Stephen F. Austin
,
David Crockett
, and
James Bowie
after prominent men of the state.
On August 12, 1988, the
Missouri Pacific Railroad
(MoPac) and its owner,
Union Pacific Corporation
, purchased the Katy with approval from the
Interstate Commerce Commission
. The merging and restructuring of railroads during the 1980s had cost the Katy much overhead traffic, and it had been seeking a merger partner.
[
citation needed
]
On December 1, 1989, the Katy was merged into the MoPac, which is now part of the
Union Pacific Railroad
system.
In the "
rails to trails
" program, much of the Missouri track line has been adapted for use as the
Katy Trail State Park
, including a spur to
Columbia
, a
Missouri State Park
, which runs along the Missouri River for the major portion of its route. In downtown Dallas, a 3.5-mi-long section called the
Katy Trail
is being converted into a multiuse trail linking
Southern Methodist University
to the
American Airlines Center
.
In 1997, the segment linking
Katy, Texas
, to downtown Houston was abandoned, and stripped of rails soon after. The section between Katy and Interstate 610 was purchased by the
Texas Department of Transportation
in 1998 for the expansion of
Katy Freeway
. The line that went into Houston was purchased by the city's Parks and Recreation Department. In 2009, it was adapted and paved as the Heights Bike Trail.
In
Tulsa, Oklahoma
, the 8.1-mile Katy trail follows an old corridor of the railroad between the northwest edge of
downtown Tulsa
and its suburb of
Sand Springs
.
[12]
As part of a new heritage program, in July 2005, Union Pacific unveiled a new
EMD SD70ACe
locomotive,
Union Pacific 1988
, painted in traditional MKT colors.
ALL ITEMS ARE SECURELY PACKED, INSURED FOR SALES PRICE AND SHIPPED VIA PRIORITY MAIL FROM THE USPS. I WILL CONSIDER COMBINED SHIPPING ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS.
The
Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Railway
(May 1, 1901, to December 31, 1926) was chartered as the
Vicksburg, Shreveport, & Texas Railroad Company
with an east and west division
[1]
on April 28, 1853, to be a link, via a transfer boat, between
Vicksburg, Mississippi
,
Shreveport, Louisiana
, and points west.
The line owned 188.448 miles of single-track,
standard gauge
track from
Delta Point
to
Lorraine
, on the Texas-Louisiana state line.
[2]
The Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Railway came into existence through acquisitions from foreclosures, court decisions, and reorganization, some of these were argued by the company lawyer
Edward H. Randolph
. The company was also known as the
North Louisiana and Texas Railroad
from 1868 until 1875, when the acquisition was set aside by court decision, and the railroad went into receivership. The
Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Railroad
was chartered December 2, 1879, and ran until 1901.
The
Confederate Army
seized the line in 1862 and in 1863 disassembled a large portion. The
Union Army
took apart the entire line east of
Monroe
. Following the
Civil War
the company went into receivership on Dec. 30, 1865, foreclosure on Feb. 5, 1866, and purchased by the North Louisiana and Texas Railroad Company in 1868.
[3]
The Alabama, New Orleans, Texas, and Pacific Junction Railways Company, Limited, of London, England, acquired the Vicksburg, Shreveport, and Pacific Railroad in 1881 to 1882, through the
Erlanger Interests
of Europe. The railroad operated until 1926, when leased to
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad
for 365 years and
[4]
merged
with the
Illinois Central Railroad
on May 29, 1959.
At one point there were twenty-four stops between Shreveport and Delta Point
[5]
but by 1967 there were only twelve depots
The tracks between Shreveport and
Waskom
, that was spelled Wascom in 1917 documents, was built by the Vicksburg, Shreveport, & Texas Railroad Company, and leased to the
Texas and Pacific Railway
in 1862.
[7]
On September 12, 1882, the T&P completed their own tracks from Waskom to Shreveport slidell LAMBERTON
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On Jul-09-21 at 14:38:26 PDT, seller added the following information:
THESE ARE ACTUALLY 2 GREEN BORDER PLATES. THIS AUCTION DOES NOT INCLUDE A COBALT BLUE PLATE. ONE PLATE IS GREEN AND THE OTHER IS BLUE/GREEN