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Quitaque Canyon
Clarity Tunnel and Section Crew in Snow
"The tunnel is about 2.5 miles SW of the Gray
Mule marker and measures about 1/8 mile in length. It is now
home to hundreds of Mexican free-tail bats (completely harmless)."
- David
Higgins of Lubbock, September 2005
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| Remembering
Gray Mule ›
by Billie Mayhall
Freeman
Gray Mule was officially named Edgin as it was at first a
place where the trains stopped to put on more water for its engines
which I guess were steam. I am not sure of who started calling it
Gray Mule but it never showed up on maps, and probably neither did
Edgin. It was always called Gray Mule by locals and probably everyone
else except the train folks....
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Close-up of
the section crew
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Close-up of
section crew in snow
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Section crew
entering tunnel
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Close up of
section crew entering railroad tunnel
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Railroad section
crew by their quarters.
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The section
house and car.
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"I started
school at Gray Mule and my Dad ran
the store there for a short time...
We lived beyond Quitaque Creek on a farm before that then moved into
Quitaque where
we four girls all graduated high school, two with honors..."
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"My sisters
and I (there were four of us) are sitting on the wall."
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"My sisters
and I in the crocheted dresses our mother had made for us."
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"My Dad
ran the store there for a short time."
"A photo of my Dad standing in front of the store's plate glass
window."
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"The
Cotton Gin (background) was owned or run by the Keisling family.
Margaret
Keisling married my first cousin."
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"... The
Great Depression / "dust bowl days" were just ahead of us
and life became much harder after that.
Those days were "The Good Ol' Days." - Billie Mayhall Freeman, Naples,
Florida, September 2010
See Remembering
Gray Mule ›
by Billie Mayhall
Freeman
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