
Mokane to Tebbetts - Mokane, MO
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YoSam.
N 38° 40.478 W 091° 52.236
15S E 598244 N 4281276
Sites and scenes along the trail in this segment
Waymark Code: WMT2WK
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 09/16/2016
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County of marker: Callaway County
Location of marker: MO-C & Katy Trail State Park Trailhead, Mokane
Marker erected: 2000
Marker erected by: Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Marker text:
Mokane to Tebbetts
The 6.2 miles from Mokane to Tebbetts have changed very little since the early days of the Katy Railroad. Like Tebbetts and many other towns along the trail, Mokane was established as a railroad town. Its name comes from this line's builder, the Missouri (MO), Kansas (KAN) and Eastern (E) Railroad, which was part of the Katy Railroad.
Toward Mokane and beyond, Katy Trail State park runs in the Missouri River floodplain under the bluffs, as far from the river as possible to avoid floods. The bluffs above the trail are composed of Jefferson City dolomite, a magnesium-rich limestone formed several hundred million years ago when Missouri lay under shallow inland seas. In the fertile floodplain to the left of the trail are fields of corn and soybeans.
The Katy Trail crosses two large streams in the Mokane-Tebbetts segment: Middle River (milepost 128.7) via a 1926 steel through-truss bridge, and Hiller's Creek (milepost 130) via an 1897 pony-truss bridge. A through truss bridge has added support at the top.
Tebbetts, founded in 1892 as a stop on the new line to St. Louis, reveals its railroad past in the open space at the town's center, once the location of the depot and sidetrack.