Warden Engine Shop
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The establishment of a roundhouse north of Waco in 1910 resulted in the development of the region which today is known as Bellmead. The engine shop pictured here held two 180-ton cranes which lifted locomotives up and into the appropriate bay for servicing. Up to eighteen trains could be serviced in this building at one time.
This file appears in: Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company
The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company began its corporate existence in the days following the Civil War and was intended to funnel business from Kansas City and points north and east to a new rail route being cut across Indian Territory and…