I’m searching the old Houston Belt & Terminal shop on this two pictures
http://www.railpixs.com/hbt/HBTshops_Houston_July77.jpg
http://www.railpixs.com/hbt/HBT_shops_Houston_April90a.jpg
Where is/was that shop?
I know it is not the shop at Milby St.
Thank you for any hints
It is not what you don’t know that hurts you.
It is what you know that is NOT SO.
Yes that IS the HB&T shop at Milby Street. Both views are taken from somewhere along York Ave, on the side of the facility opposite Milby Street. I recognize the nshops and the nangles of the tracks themselves, but the giveaway is what was then the Maxwell House coffee plant directly behind the enginehouse in the photo: http://www.railpixs.com/hbt/HBTshops_Houston_July77.jpg
Maxwell House became General Foods Maxwell House and now has another name. I don’t remember. A small portion of the plant building was an automobile assembly plant in the late 1920s, according to the guidebook Ray Miller’s Houston. That portion of the building has some resemblance to the architecture of Walther’s Brach’s Candy Factory kit.
The other photo http://www.railpixs.com/hbt/HBT_shops_Houston_April90a.jpg has a yellow sign with a marking in the bottom left corner-- something-0-2 Rusk. The ex-HBT Milby Street engine facility has an entrance at the corner of Rusk and York Ave.
Thank you. You helped me a lot[:)]
My Dad could have helped you out more, with the ins and outs. He worked there as a kid giving train orders.
He just passed away on my birthday 2/6/ of this year, 72 yrs old.
Toad
Toad,
my sincere condolence.
