end of the line Traditional Geocache
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end of the tracks ...end of the train ...its the end of the line just the same
This historic region was the beginning of the Texas Chisolm trail and trail drives left for Kansas daily. After tracks were laid to this region, cattle shipments grew to five train loads a day by 1929. Llano, in the late 1800's was also the end of the line for railroad travel. At the turn of the century, a person could ride the rail from San Francisco, New York, or Galveston and travel to the end of the Austin and Northwestern rail line and the beginning of the Texas frontier. To go farther West it was necessary to switch over to a stagecoach for the trip into Indian territory, Robert E. Lee, with government troops, took the valley of crystals away from the Comanche Indians in 1856 with the establishment of Fort Mason, just West of Llano. The Dabbs Railroad Hotel nearby is the last of a group of hotels located on the Llano river at the end of the tracks and is the last Victorian railroad hotel left standing.
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