Category:Train Hwy (Felten)

Train Hwy (1995) by Pete Felten is a stonework sign that greets visitors coming to the City of Hays, KS, on the old highway that connected Hays to the east.

The train is carved from two-tone Fencepost limestone, and is set upon a wall built from the stone fence posts. The same stone is used for the head and crest of Pteranodon.

The title connotes the paralleling railway and highway that the installation faces. The Kansas Pacific Railway track was built and Hays was founded in 1867, the first trans-state and first transcontinental "highway". In the 1920s, U.S. Highway 40, locally "Hwy 40", was constructed parallel to the KPR nearly its entire length across the state along the alignment of the Golden Belt Highway[1] also known as the Union Pacific Highway[2], also ; so, quite literally it was the highway at the train tracks, or the "train highway". After Interstate 70 was completed across the state, the highway here lost the U.S. Highway designation. The present county name of the highway is "Old Hwy 40".

Sponsors

• Hays C. V. B
• Optimists Club
• Rotary Club
• Ellis Co. Coalition
• Hays J. C.