In the upper left corner, the beige building directly behind the
fat tree and the long wooden fence is the back of the Woodfield
Suites hotel and the site of where the Katy Depot once
stood. The track off to the far right (covered by shrubs) looks
like it could have been the #1 track which would have ended right
at the ticket office behind the depot. (See
Trackside photo.) Walking the ghostly path of the track from
here to the wooden fence shows that it runs right through the white
bank building just to the right of the fat tree.
Engineering maps and property diagrams from 1918 show
that four tracks backed into the Katy Depot from Sloan Yard which
would be about a quarter mile behind you from the direction of this
photo. However, there appears to be the remnants of only two tracks
here which are either buried under a nearby gravel road or may have
been removed. This spot may have also been the beginning of the yard
ladder into the station and the large freight station which would
have been very far off to the left out of the photo. ~ juan flores