Ellis County | City of Plano - Interurban Railway Museum

Application, Financial - TER Finance Docket 16092 [pg 1]

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Bluebonnet Passenger Motor 318 at Ennis Stop - 1941

Texas Electric Railway Company Bluebonnet Passenger Motor 318 comes to a stop in Ennis. It appears that these stylishly dressed men by the Corsicana Bluebonnet are ministers. An April 11, 1940 article in the Dallas Morning News reads: "Negro Baptists Open Three-Day Convention". "The Texas Negro Baptist Convention Wednesday opened a semiannual three-day meeting at St. John Baptist Church, Allen and Guilliot, with Dr. Ernest C. Estelle as pas...

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Charter - Original Charter of Texas Electric Railway, File C579 [Pg 2]

Organization of Texas Electric Railway

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Corsicana Line near Alma - 1928

Trains pass houses that line the tracks near Alma, Texas. On the left track is a single Express (baggage/box) Motor car; on the right track is a line of Texas and New Orleans (T&NO) box cars. Texas and New Orleans Railroad was a subsidiary of Southern Pacific Railroad Company. A different view of this same scene is catalogued as photo CP.2007.CL.1-126. See: Map 5, Detail 47

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First Car of Electrically Hauled Freight in Texas - 1928

Texas Electric Railway first car load of freight. In the photo is Work Car 901 and T&NO Box Car # 34783. The banner on the box car reads "The First Car Of Electrically Hauled Freight in Texas. Carried Over Lines of This Electric Railway From Waco to Connect With I-G-N at Italy. This car is Cosigned From Texas Power & Light Company at Waco to Texas Electric Service Company at Odessa". See: Map 6

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First Car of Electrically Hauled Freight in Texas - 1928, May 22

A ceremonial photograph of community men, women and children lined up and posed in front of a Southern Pacific Lines freight car coupled to Work Car 901. There is a banner stretched across the side of the box car that reads: "The First Car of Electrically Hauled Freight in Texas". The Logo on the box car reads: "Southern Pacific Lines". The work car was painted green and cream. It was rebuilt in 1939 to flat car 1071; sent to scrap 1949. ...

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First Car of Electrically-Hauled Freight in Texas - 1928, May 22

This photo, taken in Italy, Texas, is of a Southern Pacific Lines freight car displaying a banner stating it is the first car of electrically hauled freight in Texas. Work Car 901 is coupled to the freight car. The car is consigned from Texas Power & Light Company at Waco to Texas Electric Service Company at Odessa, Texas. It stands on the interchange to IGN (MOPAC). The work car was painted green & cream. It was rebuilt in 1939 as flat ca...

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First Car of Electrically-Hauled Freight in Texas - 1928, May 22

"The First Car of Electrically-Hauled Freight in Texas" banner is displayed on a Texas and New Orleans Railroad (T&NO) box car owned by Southern Pacific on May 22, 1928. Italy, where the photograph was taken, was the interchange for freight cars hauled over Texas Electric Railways lines. This photo differs from the photo catalogued as CP.2007.CL.1-197 in that there are no people posed in front of the freight car. See: Map 6, Detail 55

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First Southern Traction Company Interurban Car in Ennis, TX - 1913, October 18

The first Southern Traction Company Interurban Car to pass through Ennis, Texas. Officials stand beside Southern Traction Car 301 for an official photograph. Before the start of regular operations, 301, as a non-revenue extra, is the first car to Ennis, the largest town between Dallas and Corsicana. Revenue service began two days later. See: Map 5, Detail 46, Ennis Station Detail

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Hermon Cook Sr. Beside Former TER Passenger Motor 360 - 1981

Hermon C. Cook Sr., donor of Texas Electric Passenger Motor 360 to the City of Plano for the Interurban Railway Museum, stands beside the railcar at his farm at Waxahachie, TX. This car was sitting on some kind of support to keep it off the ground. This car, originally Texas Traction Interurban Motor 11, was renumbered 360 during service at Texas Electric Railway. It was purchased by Mr. Cook, without the trucks, at the sale of assets after T...

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Jack Beall House in Waxahachie - ca 1985, October

SNAPSHOT: Jack Beall house in Waxahachie. Although none of the titans of the Texas interurban railway network ever achieved the lofty financial and social status fo the great financiers of the East, such as J. P. Morgan, John Astor, and Cornelius Vanderbilt, they were wealthy at their own level and in their communities. At an age in Texas when wealth was manifested by land ownership, the interurban developers built splendid homes for themselv...

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James P. Griffin House in Waxahachie - ca 1985, October

SNAPSHOT: James P. Griffin house in Waxahachie. Living in Waxahachie was James Griffin, nephew of James Beall, who succeeded Beall as the last president of Texas Electric Railway. He had a home that was more modest than his colleagues but nonetheless very striking in its architectural style and detail. See: Map 4, Detail 38

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J. F. Strickland House in Waxahachie - ca 1985, October

SNAPSHOT: J. F. Strickland house in Waxahachie. Perhaps the most magnificent of the houses of the interuban magnates was that of John F. Strickland. He lived in Waxahachie until he moved to Dallas in 1904. Now known as the Strickland-Sawyer house, it is located at 500 Oldham St. See: Map 4, Detail 38

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Johnnie J. Myers Beside TER Passenger Motor 360 - 1985, April

SNAPSHOT: Here, Johnnie J. Myers stands with crossed arms in front of Passenger Motor 360. The car has an 'Over Size Load' sign strapped to the front as it's prepared to be moved from the Cook farm to Plano. Johnnie Myers and Jim Fox, an employee of the City of Plano, Department of Parks and Recreation at the time, were the principal proponents behind saving Plano Station and restoring Texas Electric Railway Company Passenger Motor 360. A ...

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