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The Rail Lines That Changed Llano History
After the passenger train depot was bought and removed, the freight train depot (as pictured above) remained until it burned in a fire in 1961. Today Llano's Railroad Museum sits in the once busy rail yard.
Cobwebs and Cornerstones, 2011
Llano’s “boom” days began around 1888 and gradually came to an end in the late 1890s to early 1900s. During this period, the city’s population was at its peak. The focal point of activity during the boom era was Llano’s rail yard. At that time, the Texas State Capitol building in Austin was being built using granite that was donated from the owners of Granite Mountain, just outside of Marble Falls.
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