Well its midsummer with the second half to go. One hundred years ago the Stephenville, North and South Texas Railway was building south from Stephenville to Hamilton. The subject of my book was living in Hamilton at that time. It would have been a walk of about four miles from Hamilton to the bridge site on the Leon River.
CHAPTER -1
Early life in Hamilton, TEXAS 1898-1917
Cecil Willard Standefer walked with his grandfather William Rufus Standefer through the woods and across the fields that Sunday. Little red-headed Cecil was 8 years old that summer 1907 day. He was going to see the tracks of the new railroad being built by the Stephenville North & South Texas Railway. Cecil lived in Hamilton, TEXAS. He watched the construction train coming to deliver the materials needed to build the line on toward Hamilton. An SN&ST Ten Wheeler would have been on the point of this train, either the #50 or the #51. This was the first railroad, first steam locomotive, and first train that Cecil ever saw.
Ed Cooper
Cotton Belt Rail Historical Society
CHAPTER -1
Early life in Hamilton, TEXAS 1898-1917
Cecil Willard Standefer walked with his grandfather William Rufus Standefer through the woods and across the fields that Sunday. Little red-headed Cecil was 8 years old that summer 1907 day. He was going to see the tracks of the new railroad being built by the Stephenville North & South Texas Railway. Cecil lived in Hamilton, TEXAS. He watched the construction train coming to deliver the materials needed to build the line on toward Hamilton. An SN&ST Ten Wheeler would have been on the point of this train, either the #50 or the #51. This was the first railroad, first steam locomotive, and first train that Cecil ever saw.
Ed Cooper
Cotton Belt Rail Historical Society
COTTON BELT: Runs like a Blue Streak!
