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Bremond Depot
and trains
Photo courtesy Dane Williams Collection |
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"I made
my grandfather's last trip on the Sunbeam June 1954... The depot
at Bremond Texas was located between the main and Siding. The siding
today has never been straightened out to be parallel to the main
track. The sunbeam 13 and 14 would leave depots
at Houston and Dallas
at the same time. Sunbeam 13 would take siding to meet Sunbeam 14
at Bremond.
These are the pictures taken by my Uncle (son of my Grandfather)
of the actual meet at Bremond
June 1954... The siding remains the same as then, but the Depot
is gone. One of these pictures you can see the branch track coming
off the siding that went to Marlin
to Waco.
My mother told me that when she was a little girl, the family trip
to Morgan
started out on the Sunbeam at
Ennis, the family would stay at Bremond
depot 8 hours lay over waiting for the mix (a freight train
with two passenger cars on the rear end of train). Then to Waco
to change trains to go to Morgan.
It was an all day trip to see relatives.... more."
- Dane
Williams, June 13, 2014
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Sunbeam approaching
Bremond Depot
Photo courtesy Dane Williams Collection |
Southern Pacific
Photo courtesy Dane Williams Collection |
Bremond
Depot train track
Photo courtesy Dane Williams Collection |
Bremond
Depot train track
Photo courtesy Dane Williams Collection |
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