Texas and Pacific Railway Depot #1 [Stereograph]
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Texas and Pacific Railway Depot #1 [Stereograph]Description
1900-1903 stereoview by "SWAFFORD & SWAFFORD, Photographers / Home Studio, Baird, Texas." Picture of Texas & Pacific railroad yard in town - small buildings seen on left, train cars on right, an engine is down the track.Context
Baird, at the junction of Interstate Highway 20 and U.S. Highway 283 in north central Callahan County, was established when the Texas and Pacific Railway came through in 1880. It was named for railroad surveyor and engineer Matthew Baird. The community was a division point on the railroad, with a depot, roundhouse, and repair shops. It replaced Belle Plain as county seat in 1883 and gained most of the former county seat's population. New arrivals increased the population to 1,200 by the mid-1880s. Around 1910, a few years after this stereograph, a runaway train in the night precipitated a spectacular three-locomotive pile-up at this Baird depot.Category
Texas in Focus
Bayou Bend