train stop

 

I am ashamed to admit that in all the time I've been BY the Hale County Farm & Ranch Museum, I've never actually visited it until today.  Here is the 1911 restored Santa Fe train depot with the 1907 Pinkerton farm house reflected in the window.  Besides the hundred pieces of rusted farm equipment, where else could one see a button collection spanning over 80 years, the first electric permanent wave machine from a Lockney beauty shop or assorted uniforms from Hale County veterans?

 

Hale County Farm & Ranch Museum

Hale Center, Texas

train depot

 

If it weren't for the cars in the parking lot, this train depot would look much like it did when constructed in 1925.  Today the Lubbock County Historical Commission held its meeting here.  The dilapidated train deport was purchased in 2011 and relocated to Wolfforth, undergoing renovations but maintaining its heritage.  It is an excellent example of alternative use historical buildings as it currently serves as the business offices for the Lubbock and West Texas Railway.  The depot was built according to Southern Pacific's Standard Plan #3 dictating the floor plan and layout of the waiting room, agent's office and freight room -- down to the paint colors of colonial yellow and bronze green with red roof.

 

 Permian Basin Logistics

103 Steck

Wolfforth, Texas