RAILROAD STATIONS - Del Rio, TX - El Paso, TX

STATION NAME MEANING REMARKS
Del Rio of the river  
McKees    
Devil's River    
Bullis   Formerly called "Seminole"
Feeley    
Cabra goat  
Comstock    
Wild Horse Creek    
Rona shabby goat Non-agency station
Viaduct   Few miles east of Pecos high-bridge
Pecos River High Bridge   Fourth highest bridge in world, 790 miles west of New Orleans built 1892-1893
Painted Cave   Near Comstock on abandoned "Loop Line"
Shumla   First station west of Pecos River Bridge to south, may be seen signs of the old abandoned "Loop-Line"
Dorso back  
Lantry   Eagle Nest Canyon is shortly east
Bean   Station shortly west of Lantry. In 1925 there was a line change made called the "Osman-Lantry Line Change" which left old Lantry some3,000 feet south of the new line
Osman    
Hijito little boy  
Pumpville   Formerl called Samuel
Lozier    
Malvado wicked  
Shaw    
Watkins    
Thurston    
Dryden    
Mofeta skunk Formerly called Eldridge
Sanderson    
Galivan hawk  
Emerson    
Longfellow    
Rosenfeld    
Maxon    
Tesnus   Formerly "Tabor"
Haymond    
Marathon    
Warwick    
Lenoz    
Altuda high  
Strobel    
Alpine    
Toronto    
Paisano countryman  
Nopal cactus  
Marfa    
Galgo thin  
Aragon   Station on timetable
Conejo rabbit  
Ryan   Non-agency station, stockpen
Quebec   Station
Valentine    
Rubio red  
Wendell    
Chispa spark Old abandoned coal mine to south, longest tangent track on the Division passes through this locality
Danube   Formerly called "Volga"
Lobo   Elevation 3,942.9 feet
Fay   Formerly called "Haskell"
Collado hillock Here is the "ruling grade" used by Chief Dispatcher for rating tonnage for freight trains
Dalberg    
Hot Wells   Two wells "warm - nearly "hot", one 800 feet deep, one 1,000 deep, water temperature 112 degrees
Tolbert   Elevation 4,348 feet
Bola Ball  
Grayton    
Villa Village  
Sierra Blanca white mountain  
Etholen    
Lasca    
Torcer   Here was built the famous "Horseshoe Curve" in 1881
Small   A water station at west end of famed horseshoe curve
Stevenson    
Madden    
McNary    
Fort Hancock   Named for U. S. Army Post
Finlay    
Iser    
Polvo dust  
Tornillo tornillo tree  
Fabens   1923
Clint   Sister city of Fabens, end double-track
Ysleta Island  
Alfalfa    
    [Morrill, Railroad History, El Paso Division, Southern Pacific, 1881-1970

Last Updated on 01/23/2000
By Kay

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