Artesian Belt Railroad

Artesian Belt Railroad ROW near Somerset, Texas [29 12 41N, 98 38 24W]

The Artesian Belt Railroad is a long forgotten railroad that operated south of San Antonio, Texas a century ago. How it was started and its ultimate demise made a sufficiently interesting story that I co-wrote an article about it. The article was published in Clearance Card, the quarterly journal of the Southwest Railroad Historical Society. Getting it published was easy since I was the editor of Clearance Card. SRHS is no longer the historical society that it once, was having morphed into a vagabond railroad museum. My involvement ceased a decade ago. If Clearance Card is still published, it is likely a museum newsletter. Fortunately, the article we wrote is available on my co-author's website here http://codney.tnorr.com/simmons.htm.