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The Katy is another rail trail. It's name is a corruption of K-T, short for M-K-T, which is short fo...
The Katy is another rail trail. It's name is a corruption of K-T, short for M-K-T, which is short for the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad. I can't help thinking that that in turn must have been short for a longer list of states since Texas isn't contiguous with the other two.

Presumably, these little information stands are where the stations once were. This one tells how Weldon Spring was the USA's largest explosives factory during the war and also manufactured atomic weapons. It's been cleaned up a lot since then.


UTC Time: 16:38, Sunday 15 July 2007
Local Time: 11:38, Sunday 15 July 2007
Estimate of longitude: 90° 44' 38.83" W = -90.744119°
Estimate of latitude: 38° 39' 36.44" N = 38.660122°
Possible error on position estimate: 10 metres