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_0 THE 'TEXAS AIMANAC-t933.
Sixty Years of Service
JUST SIXTY YEARS AGO, the whistle
of a Katy locomotive, drawing the first
train ever to enter Texas from the north,
heralded the beginning of the real growth
and development of the Great Southwest.
Already the Katy had pioneered its way
across Missouri, Kansas and what was
then Indian Territory, so that the opening
of its Red River bridge in 1872, gave to
Texas a direct rail connection with the
industrial and commercial centers and
made possible the Southwest of today.
The Katy is proud of the part it has been
privileged to play in bringing about the
Southwest's glorious achievement. Proud
that it has main-
tained the pio-
neer spirit and
thus fostered
progress. Proud
that through all
these years it has
remained strictly
an indepeadentSouthwestern railroad, its fortunes link-
ed irrevocably with the fortunes of the
Southwest. Proud, too, that all through
the Southwest it is regarded in a friendly,
neighborly manner and universally recog-
nized as a transportation agency rendering
a vital and helpful service.
The Katy's confidence in the future of the
Southwest is as firm today as three score
years ago. It shares today the belief that
the Southwest has but reached the thresh-
old of its development and, dedicates
itself anew to its sixty-year-old policy of
wholehearted cooperation, and to the
maintenance of a freight and passenger
service in keeping with the progressive
spirit of a section it has faithfully served
for so many years.
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Texas Almanac and State Industrial Guide 1933, book, 1933; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth117159/m1/22/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.