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