Train No 409 - GP7 567 - 4 Cars - Quanah, TX - 6/9/1951 - Action Photo - Oklahoma Historical Society

The Quanah, Acme and Pacific (QA&P) depot is just out of view to the left of the image, the power is in the interlocking, on the curve just about to cross the Ft. Worth and Denver (FW&D) main line and enter the main QA&P yard that is still there today.

It is difficult to figure where this train is headed, as whether east or west it departs the depot the same way, as all the tracks there dead ended at the roundhouse west of the depot.

There was a connection west of the Roundhouse to the FW&D, but a dispute between The Quanah and the FW&D resulted in that connection being severed. That is why the loop track north of Quanah was constructed to Acme with another interlocking across the FW&D to head towards Lazar, Paducah, Roaring Springs, Floydada and the ATSF connection.

The track in the foreground is leading to the small QA&P dead ended yard that existed just out of the image to the South. This yard was taken up not too long after this image was taken.

At one time there was Pullman service to Floydada via the "Plainsman" passenger service West of Quanah, but it ended fairly early. There just was not a population base to support it.

You can kinda follow on these images where everything was. A lot of trackage for such a small town.