One of the Grand Old Ladies of railroading is headed for Katy in recognition of the 2009 convention of the Katy Railroad Historical Society. A locomotive from the heydays of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas ...

When the locomotives met, their boilers exploded almost simultaneously, hurling metal fragments and debris high into the air.

The train doesn’t stop here anymore, in fact, the train only stopped here once, but it was an explosive event. Known as the Crash at Crush, a pre-planned head-on locomotive collision that was one of ...

William George Crush, assistant to the vice president of the railroad, was a promoter who convinced Katy officials that staging a “monster wreck” of two trains destined for retirement would be great ...