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St. Louis Southwestern Railway (Cotton Belt) Passenger Station

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1901. 705 S. Main St.

Remnants of the source of Grapevine’s prosperity are contained along the railroad line. The long, slender, gable-roofed, wooden building with a jerkinhead roof is the second depot on this site, built using the company’s standard plans. The station now serves the Grapevine Vintage Railroad, a tourist attraction that runs southwest to the Fort Worth Stockyards. Behind the depot at 709 S. Main is the Cotton Belt Section House (1888), an L-plan, one- and two-story frame building that housed railroad workers. West along the tracks are the grain elevators of the Farmers and Merchants Milling Company, which processed flour and cornmeal. South of the tracks is locomotive 771 of the Southern Pacific Lines, and behind it are the remains of the turntable, one of the few remaining pieces of historic railroad machinery.

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Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Gerald Moorhead et al., "St. Louis Southwestern Railway (Cotton Belt) Passenger Station", [Grapevine, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-AW9.

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Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 230-230.

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