Where two railroads once crossed, a switchyard shaped downtown
Downtown Carrollton grew up around the crossing of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (Katy) and the St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) railroads in the late 1800s.
The junction turned the town into a shipping point for cotton, cottonseed, grain, and livestock.
Freight sidings, a depot, and elevator silos ringed the square. That rail geometry still shapes the area…