The wreck of the “Don Milo” and other Hallettsville R.R. History

The train's cargo was liquor and the onlookers loved it!

By Murray Montgomery

Staff Writer

There are times when things just sort of “pop up” when I am doing research for a column. For instance, one of my colleagues here at the newspaper asked me when the railroad quit providing service to Hallettsville. I was involved with researching another story when that question was asked, so I put it in my brain’s library of things to do and went on about my busines…