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Object Name |
Note |
Title |
Section 5 [Reseach Notes for Book "Texas Electric Railway"] - Miscellaneous Notes from Former TER Employees |
Event |
Writing the Book Texas Electric Railway |
Date |
ca 1949-1963 |
Scope & Content |
This section includes notes from various men employed by Denison & Sherman Railway. [Transcription of the handwritten notes:] The Denison – Sherman suburban cars in use in 1913 were 21 – 22 – 23 – 24. No 24 was destroyed in accident. These were superceeded by 188 – 189 – 190 – 191. 190 was built at Monroe in 1924. 191 was originally 119 (Per se – Possibly 116?) and I believe 188 and 189 were remodeled from Waco City cars, probably 117 and 118. (I promised you about three years ago that I would prove that one of these cars were #187, but so far I have failed, but haven’t changed my mind.") W.Silvus Comment by C.T.D. March 1953 The first cars that ran between Sherman and Denison were numbered 23, 24, and 25. 24 was demolished in a car wreck at Wood-lake when Rutledge was killed. 23 is out in the country being used as a chicken brooder. These are the old D & S cars built in 1901 T M. Lawson Dec 31 1953 March 1953 [identified in upper right corner of the page as '8' of a series of 8 handwritten pages] |
Associated People |
Dickenson, Charles Thornton Lawson, T. Matt Rutledge, Merrell H. Silvus, Walter |
Search Terms |
Car 116 Car 117 Car 118 Car 119 Car 187 Car 188 Car 189 Car 190 Car 191 Car 23 Car 24 Car 25 Historic Preservation Research Notes Woodlake Wreck |
Collection |
Johnnie J. Myers Collection |
Catalog Number |
CP.2006.CL.1-117 S |