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Old Posted Apr 6, 2020, 2:41 PM
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Originally Posted by jg6544 View Post
By the time I was old enough to be aware of it (early 1950s), the SP no longer served Austin. I know that there was train service to and from Houston, probably on the SP, until the late 1940s or thereabouts, but once that ended, the only trains through the depot were the northbound and southbound Katy trains.
Passenger service was relocated to the Missouri Pacific (MOPAC), now Union Pacific with a new station west of Lamar (current Amtrak station) in 1948.
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