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Railroad Round House Crew in Toyah Texas 1910
In 1910 several men from the railroad round house crew in Toyah Texas posed for this huge photograph. Toyah is the oldest town in Reeves County. It was once a hub along the Texas & Pacific Railroad. Today, it is a sparsely populated ghost town with numerous abandoned buildings standing in various states of decay. A railroad roundhouse was a locomotive maintenance building built around a turntable. Roundhouse turntables allowed locomotives or other rolling stock to be turned around for the return journey,
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Resources: Early Life in Texas County by County Books about Texas People and Places Amazing People from Texas County by County Texas History in the 19th Century (Amazon) |
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