Station

 

BANGS              Brown County

Milepost357 + 4881’

 

 

 

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.

 

 

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

 

 

  No entry

“The Earth” Press Coverage

 

One article, with photographs – Cow Sow and Hen agricultural diversity display train stopping at this station. (May 1923)

Employee Magazine Coverage

 

None.

Junction Other Lines

 

None.

 

Agency Closed

 

Railroad Commission authorized discontinuance of agency on July 22, 1968 in Docket 2012 RO.

 

Photographic Images

 

  Passenger depot, September 18, 1966. One of two double sized Bay windows on the GC&SF, built to AT&SF standards. Photographer: K.B. King, collection of Robert Pounds.

Section house. ICC valuation image, c. 1930, Santa Fe Railway.

Operating Bulletins

 

Three bulletins, see index. Example:

“Loading racks at Sinclair [bulk fuel terminal] located one mile south of Bangs will not clear a man on side of car or engine. If necessary to enter tracks with engine beyond clearance block, smother fire while operating engine on Sinclair track” (June 14, 1927)

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.