The intersection of Sienna Parkway and McKeever Rd. is where the original Cunningham ‘Sugar Land Road’, built in 1894, turns east towards Duke, Texas. This railroad did not junction with the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe at the Sugar Land Junction as shown on the preceding map because it made a junction at Duke, Texas. It was under Eldridge that the railway continued south at a later date. It was also under Eldridge that the section of track from this intersection to Duke was abandoned prior to 1917. The total Cunningham Railway was 14 miles from Sugar Land to Duke. I will return to this intersection later to follow the railway to the south. J. R. Fenn owned a sugar cane processing house at this intersection so this was a stop for the railroad.
1908 map of the railroad’s junction at Duke.
Duke was the tumulus for Cunningham's Sugar Land Railway. The map shows how the two railways joined. The ’Y’ at Arcola enabled an engineer to turn the train around for the return trip. Duke supplied water for the steam engines and was a thriving community with a post office, general store and hotel.