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Whyte Basin Store Yard

A Western themed small table loop.

In the early days of Maria La Central, when they had just branched off from steelworks and begun switching cargo over the border for larger companies, they operated out of the Whyte Yard, just north of the border and sitting right above the Whyte Canyon that eventually fed into the Gulf of Mexico. Incoming trains from either direction would come in to drop their cargo and be connected to a prepared load for the return trip, before rounding the loop and turning back out.

As MLC expanded into their own veritable rail empire, and began shipping their own cargo with much larger engines, the Whyte Yard fell into disuse. Eventually, in the early 50s during the rapid expansion into Texas and with dieselization, MLC sold the Yard to the nearby Force and Wilbur Cement company, who drained the basin and converted it into a quarry for the limestone rich rocks the larger Whyte area was known for. They even repurposed many of the rails for their own carts to move large cut stones about. MLC would continue to stop by to ship rock for FWC.