Photographs At the old Katy Station

[Barbarian]

Baggage cart on the platform of the old Katy Station in West, Texas. Just found it going though my old files. This might be the last image I made on my Pentax *stDS before I handed it off to Meagan. Taken the weekend before the fertilizer plant blew up there.

 

[jasonc]

how old is that? and do you have any other pictures of it?

our old station is dated to 1903. it has the same thing with the railroad(the hand powered cart) as well

 

[Barbarian]

I have this:

 

[jasonc]

they don't have the train version of the stop light.

 

[Barbarian]

And a similar one in St. Charles, Mo.

The Katy line was old, old, in Texas. Over 100 years, anyway. The platform baggage carts are kind of a thing with me. My dad was a roadmaster, and we went everywhere on trains via passes. I can remember the old men (at the time I think they only hired old black men) loading and unloading baggage.

 

[Barbarian]

The semaphore at West is long gone. Aren't many in use on main lines, now, and in a while they'll all be gone. That pole at the station in St. Charles is the catcher pouch pole. In the old days, when the trains didn't stop in small towns, the mail would be put in a catcher pouch on the pole, and the clerk in the postal car would grab it when the train went through, at the same time, tossing off the bag of incoming mail.

I can remember going down to the station and watching it.

 

[jasonc]

that's it the semaphore. that is being restored here. it was donated and then being worked on.