Dublin Historical Museum

12/25/2024

With Dublin Citizen – I'm on a streak! I've been a top fan for 4 months in a row. 🎉

09/04/2024

With Dublin Texas Chamber of Commerce – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

01/20/2023

What a great old picture of our depot.

Today we find ourselves just outside the Big Country in Dublin, Texas. The Texas Central Railroad was the 3rd installment of the company by this time. Having gone through a couple different new owners who have restarted the company, this owner made it a memorable one. Purchasing Alco S-2's in a bright orange paint and briefly bringing passenger service back to the line. TEXC #1 sits outside the Dublin Depot awaiting its next assignment on October 19, 1969.

Photographer: Unknown
Original Negative

10/16/2022

Grand re-opening of this beautiful building is this Tuesday Oct 18 from 4-7 pm. And you are invited ……..

When you drive down East Blackjack, there is a prominent two story building with the orange brick that you have seen a million times. It is located across the street from the Hogan Museum. It was originally designed to have offices upstairs and two merchant businesses downstairs. The Knights of Pyth...

10/12/2022

Isnt this picture precious!!

A photo from 1955 yearbook . 6th graders!

08/08/2022

Amazing story with a "local twist"

Our understanding of the solar system has been changed ever since the launch of NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft in 1977. It was one of the most incredible mission plans in the history of space flight. Both missions, launched by the United States and NASA have performed brilliantly in their 45 ye...

08/06/2022

Can’t wait to see the dublin depot restored.

All aboard!

This train depot in San Angelo was built in 1909-1910 by the Kansas City, Mexico, and Orient Railway Company (KCM&O).

The KCM&O was one of three connecting railroads promoted by mining and railroad entrepreneur Arthur E. Stilwell. The proposed rail system ran 1,600 miles from Kansas City, Missouri, to Topolabampo, Mexico, the Pacific port nearest the U.S. Midwest. However, the route was never fully completed.

San Angelo won a bitter contest over Sweetwater to become a major station on Stilwell’s international rail system. This was the largest of the company’s depots, and it also served as headquarters for their state offices.

The projecting tower room housed the dispatcher. The first floor contained the segregated waiting rooms, ticket office, baggage handling area, gentlemen’s smoking room, and ladies’ parlor. The second floor was devoted to offices.

Although the KCM&O struggled in early years, the discovery of oil in West Texas in the early 1920s led to higher company profits and capital improvements. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company purchased the KCM&O in 1928. By 1989, the Santa Fe announced plans to raze the freight and passenger depots. Citizens initiated a successful campaign to preserve and rehabilitate the buildings as a railroad museum.

In 2022, the Railway Museum of San Angelo celebrates its 25th year. The museum is open Thursdays and Fridays 1-5 p.m. and Saturdays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Plan a visit: https://texastimetravel.com/directory/railway-museum-san-angelo/

📷: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, The Library of Congress , Prints and Photographs Division