I've seen photographs of Houston's Union Station, Grand Central Station, MK&T depot, and even the little known I&GN depot. How about Houston's San Antonio & Aransas Pass (SA&AP) depot and the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe (GC&SF) depot? Any extant photos of those two obscure buildings?
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Houston's other railroad depots
Started by WillowBend56, Dec 28, 2011 at 10:53 PM
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Posted Thursday, December 29, 2011 at 9:14 AM
Can't find any photos, but here's what the Texas State Historical Ass'n website says about the SA & AP railroad, and the depot in Clodine, a town that no longer exists, but was in the area now generally known as Mission Bend..
"Clodine is twelve miles northeast of Richmond and twenty-one miles southwest of Houston in Fort Bend County. The town was established around 1888 as a station on the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway and was possibly named by a railroad official for Clodine King of Houston.
The settlement acquired a post office in 1893 and by 1896 had a general store, a Baptist church, and a population of fifty. In 1897 Clodine had a community school. By 1914 its population had dwindled to twenty-five, but by then residents had telegraph and telephone connections. In 1925 the population was reported as ten and in 1929 as seventy.
The Texas and New Orleans Railroad bought the San Antonio and Aransas Pass line in 1934 and subsequently removed the depot and section houses at Clodine."
As for the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe RR, I am almost 100 percent sure it never had a depot in Houston, inasmuch as it was built in the mid 1800s with the specific goal of NOT passing through Houston.
It was in trouble practically from start. Here's the short history of how the GC & SF RR was bought up by the Atchison, Topeka, Santa Fe..
"The Financially-troubled Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Company, a Texas line with nearly 700 miles of track in service, provided just such an opportunity. The GC&SF was required, as part of a merger agreement, to construct a 171-mile line from Fort Worth to Purcell, in the Indian Territory, where AT&SF had a railhead.
The connection was completed, and the merger became official on April 27, 1887. GC&SF continued to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary until finally merged directly into ATSF in 1965, by which time it had about 1,800 miles of track in service."
The GC & SF had a large Galveston depot, which is still standing today, and is now the home of the Galveston Railroad Museum.
http://en.wikipedia....Railroad_Museum
"Clodine is twelve miles northeast of Richmond and twenty-one miles southwest of Houston in Fort Bend County. The town was established around 1888 as a station on the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway and was possibly named by a railroad official for Clodine King of Houston.
The settlement acquired a post office in 1893 and by 1896 had a general store, a Baptist church, and a population of fifty. In 1897 Clodine had a community school. By 1914 its population had dwindled to twenty-five, but by then residents had telegraph and telephone connections. In 1925 the population was reported as ten and in 1929 as seventy.
The Texas and New Orleans Railroad bought the San Antonio and Aransas Pass line in 1934 and subsequently removed the depot and section houses at Clodine."
As for the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe RR, I am almost 100 percent sure it never had a depot in Houston, inasmuch as it was built in the mid 1800s with the specific goal of NOT passing through Houston.
It was in trouble practically from start. Here's the short history of how the GC & SF RR was bought up by the Atchison, Topeka, Santa Fe..
"The Financially-troubled Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Company, a Texas line with nearly 700 miles of track in service, provided just such an opportunity. The GC&SF was required, as part of a merger agreement, to construct a 171-mile line from Fort Worth to Purcell, in the Indian Territory, where AT&SF had a railhead.
The connection was completed, and the merger became official on April 27, 1887. GC&SF continued to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary until finally merged directly into ATSF in 1965, by which time it had about 1,800 miles of track in service."
The GC & SF had a large Galveston depot, which is still standing today, and is now the home of the Galveston Railroad Museum.
http://en.wikipedia....Railroad_Museum
Edited by FilioScotia, Thursday, December 29, 2011 at 9:50 AM.
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Posted Thursday, December 29, 2011 at 3:45 PM
If you do a Wikipedia search for Alief,Houston, the 1st photo you'll see is of the Alief SA & AP depot.
http://en.wikipedia..../Alief,_Houston
http://en.wikipedia..../Alief,_Houston
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Posted Friday, December 30, 2011 at 7:39 AM
Thanks for that info. I love learning things like this about the history of our area.
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Posted Friday, December 30, 2011 at 10:01 AM
Au contraire! The Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe did have a depot in Houston at Congress and St. Emanuel.
Check out the Sanborn maps of Houston---either 1896 (sheet 13) or 1907 (sheet 11):
http://www.lib.utexa...ton-1896-13.jpg
or
http://www.lib.utexa...07-vol1-011.jpg
It would have been in use before Union Station was opened.
The SA&AP depot seems to have been located at Lamar & Hutchins:
http://www.lib.utexa...ton-1896-26.jpg
Check out the Sanborn maps of Houston---either 1896 (sheet 13) or 1907 (sheet 11):
http://www.lib.utexa...ton-1896-13.jpg
or
http://www.lib.utexa...07-vol1-011.jpg
It would have been in use before Union Station was opened.
The SA&AP depot seems to have been located at Lamar & Hutchins:
http://www.lib.utexa...ton-1896-26.jpg
