Talk:Stephenville North and South Texas Railway

The data on the page is from research for the unpublished biography of C. W. "Red" Standefer a native of Hamilton, Texas. When that manuscript is published all the sources for chapters 1 and 2 will be available to document where the data came from. SSW9389 11:31, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

The book on Hamilton native C. W. Standefer is now out. Standefer worked for Cotton Belt from 1917-1967. He saw the SN&ST being built into Hamilton as a young boy. Chapters 1 & 2 of this book cover the SN&ST construction and route. Standefer worked on the line some starting as an Engine Watchman in Hamilton. --SSW9389 18:52, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

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UPDATE: The "car dealership" has moved out since the time of this post. It has been kept intact since the dealership moved out, and parts of the 'depot' can still be seen with the original stain glass windows, and after the Texan Theater Fire burned down earlier this year (2010), the sign 'Hamilton' is visible on the west side of the depot. It has an auto part store in one of the mechanic bays. It is now a 'rental' space for lease for any small business to operate. Much of the old R.O.W. can be followed out to Pecan Creek Park north of town, by Murphy's Wrecking yard, as concrete culverts, drainage portals still exist, and along U.S. 281, there is a billboard sign north of town, and a county road to your left or right facing north or south on U.S. 281 that shows a section of abandoned R.O.W. that goes west north west to an abandoned WYE that splits north through some hills, then crosses U.S. 281 along current County Road 203, crosses through a valley in a western direction toward Spurlin, Carlton, Alexander and Stephenville, TX. The western route, snakes along westerly crossing County Road 101, and a culvert concrete tunnel exists on your right if you take the CR 101 (OLD Stephenville Highway) CR 103 branches to your left and you will find an abandoned R.O.W. with a drainage pipe under the R.O.W. with 1927 stamped on it. C.R. 103 snakes around and meets up with the R.O.W. and goes to a now closed bridge. C.R. 103 is broken on both sides of a rotted trestle bridge, as the rest of the R.O.W. can be seen on the west side of the bridge and take the rest of C.R. 103 to C.R. 106. If you can get an official Hamilton County Road map. (That's from personal experience and road trips.) The 'southern' half of the railroad is obscured from bulldozing and erosion. Much of the R.O.W. south of Hamilton can be seen by U.S. 281 south, and goes east to Aleman, Ireland, Levita, and Gatesville, TX. (This is the section that remained until January 1941 a few months before December 7, 1941.) Take Farm To Market Road 932 from Hamilton, to Ireland, and you can see much of the R.O.W. In Aleman much of it now is private drive way. And sections exist where a railroad shaped mound of dirt once held railroad tracks. Drive past Aleman, and in the distance you can make out the old R.O.W. going east to Ireland. The old R.O.W. does 'snake' around FM 932. If it exists then it hasn't been bulldozed or eroded away totally. What remains approx 1 to 2 miles just north of Ireland is some concrete signal base and support with rusted bolts. It's a stretch of FM 932 along your left side (going north) or right side (going south) along FM 932 in side the barb wire fence before / after you cross C.R. 432 in Hamilton County. ) Magnolia677 (talk) 00:24, 6 March 2017 (UTC)