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Texas Transportation Museum

11731 Wetmore Road, San Antonio, TX 78247
(210)490-3554

The Longhorn Chapter of the N.R.H.S. presents . . .

The M-K-T (Missouri-Kansas-Texas) San Antonio Depot and History,

ADDITIONAL PHOTO PAGE

Click on the thumb nail images to enlarge them

More images of the MKT Station

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General Motors promotional poster of the San Antonio station

Early aerial view of the MKT yard at Durango

San Antonio Depot Blueprints

Blueprint Copies

We can provide half size copies of the originals, for a fee, upon request. Bruce Blalock has the full size originals, which are part of his MKT Collection, which is truly awesome in its breadth and scope. He has a full time railroad job as well as running the KATY House. He may be able to get you copies but it will take time and be expensive. The half size copies, which come from Bruce's originals, are probably perfectly fine for any amateur purpose and are more legible than the severely reduced scans provided here.

To contact Bruce, click THE KATY HOUSE

Images of the MKT in other towns.

Bastrop

Lockhart

Click here for •New Braunfels•

Click here for •San Marcos•

Smithville

Four KATY magazine adverts

Timetables from the 1916 "OFFICIAL RAILWAY GUIDE"

Some MKT locomotives, many photographed in San Antonio.

Two drawings of an MKT Alco

MKT Caboose

There was a lot of surplus KATY rolling stock, in San Antonio in 1966. TTM acquired the caboose in 1964. It is now owned by Bruce Blalock and located at his Smithville B & B, where it will be restored to its original external appearnce and made into a very special bedroom.

More pictures taken at Sloan Yard, San Antonio, around 1966

The museum acquired a lot of rolling stock from the KATY yard in 1966, not all of it ex-MKT. The Santa Fe Cafe Obsevation car 1511 would have a much better fate than its sister car, #1510 which was unceremoniously scrapped. After being put in service on main lines for TTM excursions (see also the Missouri Pacific page) it was transferred to the Texas State Railroad that runs between Rusk and Palestine. Caboose 835 was also sold and has just recently re-emerged in the hands of Bruce Blalock. The Clover Glade was kept for a few years only and never made it to our "new" site. Santa Fe Buisness car 404, of course, did make it here, and has been with us since our earliest day at our current location. (We've been here over 30 years but started off down town at the Pearl Brewery.) The McKeever has been with us a good long time as well after fifteen years or so at a place on lake Placid, near Seguin. Those were strange days. The railroads were desperate to get rid of their passenger cars. What vandals and scrap yards did not get to, time and weather have and much of what is out there is not worth having.

For more information about the "McKeever, click TTM RAIL CARS
(Also the #404 Santa Fe business car, now at TTM, and the #401, abandoned in Seguin.)

The Woodfield Suites Hotel

The Woodfield Suites now occipies the site once occupied by the KATY station. The hotel has 151 suites. It has single rooms, two room deluxe suites and two room jacuzzi suites. It is a full service, moderately priced hotel with every modern convenience. Call them at (210) 212-5400, and stay just about as close as you could possibly be to the good old days of the MKT. Our chapter of the N.R.H.S. is working with the hotel to get an historical marker erected for the old depot.

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