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KATY'S COUNTRY: A new DVD from Main Track Media
ORDER HERE:Join host and producer “Locomotive” Mike Landis for the story of a railroad fighting to survive in the 1980s. Linking the metropolises of Missouri with the cities and ports of the Lone Star State, the Katy Railroad served the south-central U.S. for nearly 120 years. Officially known as the Missouri-Kansas-Texas, this quaint regional line found itself by the 1980s struggling to succeed as neighboring railroads consolidated to form mega-systems. By the latter part of the decade, the MKT itself was in the process of being merged into the Union Pacific system, and her days as an independent railroad were numbered. Ken Kaiser, a railroad enthusiast living in Clinton, Missouri along Katy’s Sedalia Subdivision, saw the writing on the wall and sought to capture the last days of his favorite hometown railroad. With his camcorder in hand, Ken was there to witness Katy’s last hurrah in Henry County. His rare footage has been compiled into this feature video, Katy’s Country: Recalling the Final Days of a Midwestern Mainline. In this narrated 65-minute show, you’ll witness an eclectic mix of colorful locomotives heading up freight, piggyback, coal, and local trains bouncing along rickety rail- much of which was abandoned soon after these memories were captured. As an added bonus, Mike takes you back to Henry County 30 years later and provides an update on the town’s railroad remnants. Any train buff will enjoy the action-packed trip experienced in this release by Main Track Media.
Mike Landis, who produces and narrates The Main Track, is available for your voiceover project.
Katy Trail Touring to Pilot Grove
We take a touring training ride from New Franklin, MO out to Pilot Grove, MO. Takes us through Boonville so you get a bit of a glimpse of the Missouri River.Thank you for watching!
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Missouri River Flood 2007
I-70 Bridge at Columbia by Boonville 5-16-07
MoDOT working on Missouri River Bridge in Jefferson City
MoDOT working on Missouri River Bridge in Jefferson City
Droneonomics Presents Bridges in Missouri
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BOONVILLE MISSOURI COP ERIC MOSS CONSTITUTION RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
BOONVILLE MISSOURI POLICE OFFICER ERIC MOSS EXTENSIVELY LIES IN POLICE REPORTS VIOLATES CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE BURNT OUT RAILROADING COOPER COUNTY PROSECUTOR BACKS IT ALL UP. MISSOURI HAS A WORSE JUDICIAL SYSTEM THAN THE COUNTRY OF MEXICO AND SCORES D GRADE ON CORRUPTION RISK.THE STATE PUBLIC DEFENDER SYSTEM ALSO VIOLATES THE CONSTITUTION QUITE EXTENSIVELY.ERIC MOSS ALSO STOLE MANY OF DIEGO HARMON'S ITEMS OUT OF HIS CAR ON 10/23/2013 AND SERIOUSLY VIOLATED THE 4TH AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION THAT DAY !
Logging Railroads Pt 2
Oregon, California, and EasternWeyerhaeuser Woods Railroad
A hauler in Southwestern Oregon
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Katy Freeway Houston Texas
One of the many Flyover Net in Houston
Ofallon mo drone fly over
Arial footage across rivers & over mountains!
Harley Park, Boonville Missouri 2-11-13
A beautiful but windy day at Harley Park during high water on the Missouri River
MKT Segment 1
Part one of eight in my presentation on the MKT railroad.The MKT trail is a popular hiking and biking trail in Columbia, Missouri. It starts at Flat Branch Park at 4th and Cherry, and continues, not only through 9 miles of the college town, but throughout the state of Missouri connecting with the larger Katy Trail (MKT Nature and Fitness Trail). The Katy Trail follows the Missouri River, traveling the same path as the railroad that was there for over ninety years before it was converted into a nature trail in the Rails-to-Trails movement.
The Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railroad, shortened to the MKT and nicknamed the Katy Railroad, ran through Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma down to Texas. This development began after the Civil War when the potential of the Midwest was realized (Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railway 1). John D. Rockefeller was one of the many to realize that railroads were going to become the official mode of agriculture transportation (Poole). In 1891, he signed a certificate for 100 shares in the MKT Railway, supporting the MKT in the race to connect the Indian Territory with the rest of the United States. Because of his participation, the MKT beat Union Pacific in the race (Scripophily.net).
Columbia was put on the MKT line for the resources the town offered. The creeks -- Hinkson, Perche, and Flat Branch -- lead to the Missouri River Valley (Christisen). Flat Branch Creek was a boon for Columbia residents and the area around the creek was Columbia's original settling spot. They abandoned Smithton, a town a half-mile west of the Columbia area, to get water from a well in the Flat Branch bottoms. In 1899 the MKT officially had a line in Columbia, bringing in passengers and supplies from St. Louis and Kansas City through McBaine. The main purpose of the railroad transportation was to bring coal to the university power plant on what is now Stewart Road, and passenger service (CBT Staff). The train brought in papers from Kansas City and St. Louis to go along with local city papers like The Missourian or The Columbia Daily Tribune (Hunt). The idea that passenger service would widen university admissions due to student transportation was a major contributing factor to resident support. Still, many objected to the placement of a railroad in the educational center that is Columbia, fearful that it would bring an undesirable element to the community. (Christisen).
Columbia residents may have had a point. Criminal activity seemed to go along with railroads. Jimmy Doyle, a retired conductor from Boonville, recalled the hobos he would see on the train when they stopped for water to power the steam engines. The professional hobos went south in the winter and came back north in the spring. (Bailey). Thomas Hart Benton painted Regionalism depictions of American life, particularly in the Midwest. One of his paintings titled City Slums shows the railroad passing through a Kansas City criminal slum neighborhood (Benton). My great-grandfather moved to Kansas City to work on the MKT in the fifties, leaving my great-grandmother and their children behind in Indiana. My grandfather was living on the streets in a slum like this. My grandma missed him so much that she packed up all the kids and took a train right to the depot without any money. My grandpa had to quit the railroad in order to find a better paying job to support the family. I always loved this story because it showed how romantic my family could be, at least before dysfunction set in later.
The most infamous criminal from Missouri, Jesse James, was the leader of the gang to stage the world's first robbery of a moving train in 1873 (Jesse James Historical Site). Benton depicted the outlaw and his gang performing this crime (Benton). The actor Brad Pitt starred as the outlaw Jesse James in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford in 2007 (Internet Movie Database). Pitt was raised in Springfield, Missouri. He went to the University of Missouri, majoring in journalism with a focus in advertising, but left two credits short of graduating to move to California to try out acting (IMDb). Brad Pitt is one of the most famous attendees of MU and the mere rumor of his presence on campus, supposedly visiting his old school for an Oprah interview, whipped the student body into frenzy on February 17th, 2011. The criminal activity on the railroads in Columbia was average until the Spring of 1923 when a wrongful lynching occurred due to criminal activity on the MKT railroad tracks.
The Forgotten Race - Final Segment
The final segment features George Mack, the 2nd African American to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 in 2002, Troy Adams, owner of Adams Kart Track, and Chris Miles, founder of Starting Grid, Inc.
Cooper & Moniteau Co Backroads
Gravel roads of Cooper and Moniteau Missouri via F800GS.
Exploring The Abandoned Municipal Free - MacArthur Bridge in St. Louis MO Route 66
More Route 66 adventure here:Join me as we take an in depth look on top of the remaining sections of the Municipal Free Bridge, or sometimes referred to as the MacArthur Bridge. Right now the bridge deck that once carried Route 66 is being dismantled and removed permanently by the TRRA (Terminal Rail Road Association). This video serves to immortalize the current images of an often overlooked landmark in St. Louis and Route 66.
In my best estimation estimation, road decking that is directly above the rail section will be removed. I have exhaustively tried reaching out to the public relations department of the TRRA with no response.
We used a number of different methods to attain the best footage possible. We even employed a quad copter or a drone equipped with an HD camera to get our aerial shots.
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Katy Trail Bike Ride
Our annual ride to the Pumpkin Festival in Hartsburg Mo with Kempfs.
The Ladies try a Pivot Firebird 29. Kelly's first 29er. Katy's first time on full-sus at Snow Summit
Kelly and Katy head up to Snow Summit and ride each other's bikes. Except Kelly's bike is a loaner Pivot Firebird 29 from The Path Bike Shop, and it's the first 29er she's ever ridden.Katy and Kelly swap mountain bikes so that Katy can ride a full-suspension bike for the first time at Snow Summit, and Kelly is reminded of the hardships of riding a hardtail.
It's a fun and funky day with two rad ladies generating stoke on and off the trail!
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Katy Trail State Park 20 Mile Bike Ride
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4-train Saturday at Boonville November 2017
Here are a handful of trains that I managed to catch on a short visit to Boonville, Missouri on Union Pacific's River subdivision in November of last year - Enjoy!For more videos of trains in the Midwest states and other great railroad action, be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel:
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