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COLLEGE STATION RAILROADS Compiled by Bill Page November 24, 2008 The Houston and Texas Central Railroad Company is building a neat depot at College Station. Galveston Daily News, 19
July 1883, p.1 Bryan, Texas, May 9 – The Houston and Texas Central railroad people are building a neat freight depot at the college. Lieutenant B.C. MORSE of College has erected a great
high flag staff from which the stars and stripes float now. Houston Post, 10 May 1892, p.8, col.4 Bryan, Tex., May 2 – Arthur Phillips, assistant janitor at the agricultural and mechanical
college, met with a horrible death this afternoon. While returning from Bryan to the college he either fell or jumped from the train, and was dashed against a stock gap and terribly
mangled. The lower part of the body was crushed, he was disemboweled, and the right leg was broken, leaving the bone protuding. Justice Gainer held an inquest and returned a verdict
of death by accident. Phillips was 24 years old, single, and came from Baltimore, Md. He was brought brought to Bryan for interment. Galveston Daily News, 3 May 1896, p.2, col.2 Just
below College yesterday at noon the north bound passenger train struck an old Negro named Elder Anderson, and he sustained injuries about the back and head of a painful but not fatal
character. He was brought here and received medical attention after which he was sent to Houston. (weekly) Bryan Eagle, 13 September 1900, p.2, col.3 Bryan, Tex., Aug. 3 – A white man
named Ramsey was killed by a passenger train on the Houston and Texas Central late this afternoon below College Station. He was riding a velocipede. Dallas Morning News, 4 August 1903,
p.6 College Station, Aug. 4 – John Ramsey, who has been milkman at the college barn for several years, was instantly killed by the southbound 7 o’clock passenger train last evening at
the water tank two miles south of College Station. Mr. Ramsey was riding on a railroad velocipede and was struck by the train while he was removing the machine from the track. Dallas
Morning News, 5 August 1903, p.4 Dock Nero, a Negro living at College Station, in attempting to board the 8 o’clock passenger train for his home last night, fell beneath the cars and
one foot was badly mangled by the wheels. (weekly) Bryan Eagle, 7 March 1904, p.2, col.4 A south-bound passenger train struck a Negro at College Station Tuesday night, inflicting a serious
wound on his head. He was brought to Bryan and reported getting along very well yesterday afternoon. The Eagle learns that a Negro who was with him claims he was asleep on the track,
and he endeavored to get to him and get him off, but did not have time. The injured Negro’s name is Orin Mathews. (weekly) Bryan Eagle, 26 May 1904, p.3, col.2 College Station, Tex.,
Oct. 2-A southbound freight train on the International and Great Northern Railroad was wrecked here this morning.
Six or eight cars left the track and four were badly smashed up. The track was torn up for a distance of a hundred yards or more. Two of the ruined cars were loaded with cotton, one
with wheat and one with coal. A crew of wreckers have been at work all day, but have not cleared the track yet. The tracks of the Central are being used from Bryan to Navasota for passenger
trains. Dallas Morning News, 3 October 1906, p.3 "Celebrate Victory," Houston Daily Post, 2 Nov. 1908, p.4. Cadets built bonfire at train station "College Men Have Hopes of Winning from
Texas," Galveston Daily News, 2 Nov. 1908, p.4. Bonfire at train station "Building at College Station," Galveston Daily News, 23 May 1909, p.19. New railroad depot. A.W. Grant of the
National Co-operator and Farm Journal, is back from the Texas Farmers' congress at College Station with a fine story of the way a carload of bees held an International & Great Northern
train crew at bay all night. The bees were the property of F.H.l Scholl of New Braunfels, who went to College Station to address the section on bee raising at the congress. While making
the trip he decided to ship down some bees for his ranch near College Station. Mr. Scholl walks about among bees just as the cowman walks about among cattle. On the trip, however, the
carload of bees was shaken up by shifting. The bees objected to the performance. They came out of the car and proceeded to get busy. Trainmen were driven off and unable to throw a switch
at a siding, where an attempt was made to put the car. Finally Mr. Scholl was summoned. After remaining up all night he succeeded in patching up a truce between the bees and the trainmen,
and the bee colony was unloaded. ("Car Load of Bees Hold I.& G.N. Crew All Night," Fort Worth Star Telegram, 1 August 1909, p.21) "A. and M. College Notes," Bryan Daily Eagle, 26 August
1909, p.1. This article mentions that the old Houston & Texas Central Railroad Station has been moved to campus & is being converted to a house for librarian Quarles. "College Station
is Busy Place Nowadays," Galveston Daily News, 21 Sept. 1909, p.3. One boy walked from Bryan to enroll; two railroad depots and two express stations in College Station; tents named "Camp
Milner," tents have street lights; cadet uniforms from Philadelphia It is the first time that the legislature has adjourned to attend in a body an educational institution of the state
located away from the state capital … The legislative special train …brought a large number of visitors. A number of citizens of Bryan headed by J.A. Myers chairman of the reception
committee, met the special train carrying the legislators to College, which arrived in the city this morning at 10:30 o’clock, and exchanged greetings with the lawmakers. There were
not over seventy-five members of the legislature on the train. Many citizens boarded the cars, shaking hands and distributing Havanas among the members. Many of the citizens remained
on the train and went to College with the party …. (“Entire Legislature at A.& M. College,” Bryan Weekly Eagle, 16 February 1911, p.3; also see: “Legislature
Will Come Saturday,” Bryan Weekly Eagle, 9 February 1911, p.2) "College Students Fined for Shifting Box Cars," Galveston Daily News, 29 Nov. 1911, p.9. Commandant had cadets move railroad
cars to get fuel oil for campus Bryan, Tex., Dec.24 – W.B. Hector of Alpine, a student of the A. & M. College, was instantly killed tonight when, in attempting to allight from a train
at College Station, he lost his footing and was thrown under the wheels. Hector had been Christmas shopping in Bryan. His body was discovered by students. Hector was 20 years of age
and was a member of Company H, being a Sergeant in that company. Dallas Morning News, 25 December 1913, p.2 Antone WATHUBER, a responsible Bohemian citizen residing south of the A. and
M. College, was in the city today to inform the officers of a suspicious circumstance that occurred near his home. While Mr. WATHUBER was away from home, a strange man went to a bridge
on the Houston and Texas Central Railroad near his house, crawled under the bridge and right at the end of the wooden timbers of the bridge deposited a lot of kindling and chips. A Negro
saw him and went near the bridge before he set the kindling on fire. When the man saw the Negro, he came out and walked rapidly toward some nearby woods. The Negro followed him for some
distance. Bryan Weekly Eagle, 13 Dec. 1917, p.6, col.4. Bryan … Westly Harris, a Negro, was instantly killed and his wife seriously injured when the wagon in which they were riding was
struck by a southbound International & Great Northern passenger train near the Agricultural and Mechanical College. The wagon was demolished and both mules killed. Dallas Morning News,
December 26, 1920, p.3 “Wealthy Planter, Avoiding Collision with Train, Killed,” Dallas Morning News, May 6, 1931, sect.1, p.3. T.T. Goodwin; he tried to avoid a train at Jones’ Crossing
just south of College Station