M-K-T

ID: 2456 ~ Source: Waco, Texas: Business and Industry: Owens-Illinois, Inc. Vertical File, The Texas Collection, Baylor University.
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M-K-T

The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad was instrumental to the initial success of the Waco plant, with tracks running right up to the facility.

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By Anabel Burke
Owens-Illinois Inc., one of the largest glass bottle manufacturers in the world, originally came out of the famous Glass Capital of the World—Toledo, Ohio—in 1903. With its success came expansion, and the company opened a plant in Waco, Texas, on…