Roy, i just noticed- I let 2 sentences run together and may have not made it clear that the Katy shops, lake, roundhouse, college, bandstands, hospital, and gym and classrooms the WPA made from old railroad buildings was in Walnut Springs (Bosque County) on Steele Creek, not in Hico on the Bosque. The grade to Glen Rose was also from Walnut Springs but no track was ever laid on the roadbed. One of the 4 bands in Walnut played every sunday afternoon for park visitors while fancy divers swam in the lake. One bandstand was in the lake. One is the City Park bandstand under the pecan trees grafted by Ross Wolfe and crew when he was starting Wolfe's Nursery in Stephenville. They are hue now. The 6 man football field is on old Railroad property. Sorry about the mistake- might be confusing if you don't know the country. Take care Charles Wyly The Birdsong Peanut run used to use one Diesel to pull a Sunday afternoon ride from Gorman to Dublin and back- sometimes running with the engine exposedBeyond that track the sheetrock is no longer moved from West Texas to Waco. The highway bridge across the middle of Lake Whitney was built on an old railroad tressle bridge- May have been the old Katy, but I was thinking it was the old I&GN (Tin Can) Railroad. Katy stopped their runs late 1960's , about 1970's and had a 5 mile speed limit through Walnut Springs a few years before that. When Walnut Springs won Regional in 6 man football, the players told me in the classroom that they would go down the night before the game and jump on empty sheetrock flat cars and run and jump from one to another. One star athlete missed and caught the front of a car with his leg boucing on the rail in front of a wheel and pulled himself back up and played that week. They would get off at Iredell or Hico and a friend would pick them up. Some got College football scholarships. The roadbed today has Federal Housing projects- single homes or duplexes in several of the towns the katy used. The I.& Gn. ran east out of Hillsboro through Brandon, by hwy 22 It may have joined the Katy in Hillsboro where the Katy turned to Waco. On Thu, 03 Sep 1998 10:55:29 -0500 Roy Ables <roya@airmail.net> writes: >How would I go about finding information as to when RAILROADS >first came to Erath County and their names? > >Thanks for any help. > >-- >Roy Ables >Home Address 1808 Stolper Dr. Arlington, Tx 76013 >Genealogy Home Page http://users.why.net/roya >E-Mail roya@airmail.net > > > _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]