Bud Matthews Switch of the Texas Central Railway

Bud Matthews Switch of the Texas Central Railway (HM1I0S)

Location: , TX Shackelford County
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Country: United States of America
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N 32° 44.162', W 99° 31.046'

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In 1900, the Texas Central Railway extended a line northwest from Albany across this portion of Rose Ella (Matthews) Conrad's cattle ranch. Ella and her brother John A. "Bud" Matthews, for whom this site is named, promptly constructed cattle pends and a loading chute at this location. Surrounding ranchers soon were shipping their cattle from this switch to markets in Fort Worth. As many as 105,000 head of cattle were shipped annually until the railroad ceased operations in 1967. Since that year, local ranchers have continued to load cattle onto trucks from this site.
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HM NumberHM1I0S
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Marker Number557
Year Placed1992
Placed ByTexas Historical Commission
Marker ConditionNo reports yet
Date Added Wednesday, November 26th, 2014 at 9:01pm PST -08:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)14S E 451519 N 3622142
Decimal Degrees32.73603333, -99.51743333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 32° 44.162', W 99° 31.046'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds32° 44' 9.72" N, 99° 31' 2.76" W
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