MKT Survivors

Just hanging around Cheyenne's UP steam shops:

 

Long way from home.....amazingly, the car looks to be in decent shape. If this isn't a donation candidate, I don't know what is.

 

It's prolly chock full of steam loco parts to aid in restoration of UP 844. Many of the assorted boxcars in the roundhouse area are full of steam engine parts for both 3985 and 844. Much of the 844 is prolly in those boxcars, as safe storage. The steam shop is not all that spacious.....

 

Hey, whatever it takes to keep it from being scrapped....

 

Caught this on a gravel train in Rosenberg a few months ago.

 

Here's an oddball in Cheyenne today:
Its heritage is clearly evident, and in clear disregard for its current owner...

 

Council Bluffs, IA:

 

Reno, NV:

 

MKT caboose 1024 in front of the Katy Depot, Denison, TX. There are 2 other Katy cabooses- both are in the green & yellow. All of these, including the depot, could count as "Katy survivors..........

 

Here is its brother in Shawnee.

 

Here's a few:



Denison,TX



Former MKT GP40 on DGNO, Sherman,TX



Still in use today, Muskogee, OK, ex-MKT yard