Station |
BANGS Brown County Milepost357 + 4881’
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Origin of Station
Name |
For Samuel Bangs survey, on which it was located. Bangs was a pioneer Texas printer, printing the first daily newspaper in the Republic of Texas in Galveston in 1839. |
Agency Opened |
April 1, 1886 |
1886 Personnel |
M. Wilson - Stationmaster - $60/mo. T. C. Campbell - Section Foreman - $55/mo. Laborers: Mike Glynn, G. W. Hull, T. C. Robinson, T. C. Fitzgerald, R. A. Fitzgerald, Dick Walker; all paid $1.25/day.
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1890 Insured
Structures |
Depot - $995 Section House - $655 (Section No. 41) |
1921 Depot(s) |
Depot built 1914 24’3” by 80’, wood frame, drop siding, tin shingles, doublewide bay window. One of two on the system having the doublewide bay, which was built to a standard plan of the parent company A.T.& S. F. Railway, the other one was located at Zephyr, and built the same year, likely by the same contractor. This structure survives as a private residence in Brownwood, without its bay window. |
1946 Traffic Report |
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“The Earth” Press
Coverage |
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Employee Magazine
Coverage |
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Junction Other
Lines |
None. |
Agency Closed |
Railroad Commission authorized discontinuance of agency on July 22, 1968 in Docket 2012 RO. |
Photographic Images |
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Operating Bulletins |
Three bulletins, see index. Example: |
Railroad Commission
Complaints |
Eight complaints, from 1898 to 1907, see index. Subjects are closure of depot in 1898, failure to furnish agent thereafter, and poor telegraph service. |
Legal Department
Files |
None. |
Remarks
Post office established 1886, with arrival of the railroad. According to The New Handbook of Texas, population was 136 in 1900, and 600 by 1916 when the town was incorporated. |
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