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Metadata
Object Name |
Note |
Title |
Section 9 [Reseach Notes for Book "Texas Electric Railway"] - #500 [Series: 500] Notes on #500 / #621 |
Event |
Writing the Book Texas Electric Railway |
Date |
ca 1949-1963 |
Scope & Content |
This section includes notes about car 500 / 621 within the 500 series. The notes are typed on the back of recycled paper. [Transcription of the typed notes:] Express Motor #500 Southern Traction Company, in 1913, as part of its original equipment order, purchased six new 1200 volt express motors from American Car Company, of which #500 was one. In 1917, this car, #500, was transferred to the then formed Texas Electric Railway, where it continued as the same type, bearing the same number and was assigned the same tasks as formerly given it by Southern Traction Company. Electrical controls were removed from #500 in 1938 for use on freight motor #906 (or possibly #802), at which time the body was converted into an express trail car to which was assigned the number #621. This car, #621, was used as an express trail car until the final days of Texas Electric Railway Company in 1948, at which time they were dismantled. |
Search Terms |
500 Series 600 Volt American Car Company Car 500 Car 621 Class A Locomotive Class B Locomotive Express Trail Car 621 Historic Preservation Locomotive 802 Locomotive 906 Research Notes |
Collection |
Johnnie J. Myers Collection |
Catalog Number |
CP.2006.CL.1-121 J |