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1. 1925 Studebaker Buses 5 and 6 at Monroe Shops - 1925

   Two 1925 Studebaker Buses (numbered 5 and 6) sit in front of the Monroe Shops, in the yard. These were bought by Texas Electric Railway Company to replace electric street cars. Use of buses, with varied routes, slowed competition from jitneys and automobiles by providing increased flexibility for riders. Texas Electric Railway began purchases in 1925 of five Studebaker motor buses to replace city streetcars in Sherman and Denison. These bu...

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2. Damaged Passenger Motor 350 at Monroe Shops Yard - 1946

   Insurance photograph showing damage to the left side of Passenger Motor 350 after an accident. Photograph taken on the south side of the Monroe Shops Carbarn. See: Map 3; Map 8, Detail A

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3. Damaged TER Passenger Motor 303 at Monroe Shops Yard, 1933 - 1933

   Texas Electric Railway Passenger Motor 303 on the east side of the Monroe Shops Carbarn after a slight accident. The original car 303 was rebuilt and renumbered to 309. This is the second car 303, which was made into a one-man car by removing the rear entrance. Note the arch windows. See: Map 3; Map 8, Detail A

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4. Damaged TER Passenger Motor 316 at Monroe Shops - 1947

   Damaged Passenger Motor 316 on the east yard tracks next to the Monroe Shops Carbarn. See: Map 3; Map 8, Detail A

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5. Damaged TER Passenger Motor 366 at Monroe Shops - 1948, November 25

   SNAPSHOT: Texas Electric Railway Company Passenger Motor 366 sitting in a damaged state at Monroe Shops Yard; front right 3/4 view. This car was wrecked on 10 April 1948 when it collided with Passenger Motor 365 near Kirkland Siding. An unidentified locomotive sits at the rear of the car. See: Map 3; Map 8, Detail A

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6. Damaged TER Passenger Motor 366 at Monroe Shops - 1948, November 25

   SNAPSHOT: Texas Electric Railway Company Passenger Motor 366 sits in a damaged state in the Monroe Shops Yard; partial side view. This car was wrecked on 10 April 1948 when it collided with Passenger Motor 365. It sat at Monroe Shops, unfixed, through abandonment of the company. See: Map 3; Map 8, Detail A

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7. Five TER Passenger Motors at Monroe Shops - 1949, January 1

   SNAPSHOT: Five Texas Electric Railway Company passenger motors in the Monroe Shops Yard. Passenger motor 328 is in the forefront; rear left 3/4 view. See: Map 3; Map 8, Detail A

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8. Interior of Monroe Shops Looking South - 1916

   Interior view of the central bay of the Monroe Shops Carbarn. It shows a 15-ton overhead crane. Cars entered through the south doors. Built in 1915, the Monroe Shops housed the maintenance for repair, refurbishing, and rebuilding of interurban cars. Located in Dallas, the shop performed a myriad of operations to keep the interurban system in top form. The shops, located 4 miles south of downtown Dallas, were the largest in the South. They...

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9. Map - Hand-drawn Texas Electric Railway Trackage Map, Dallas, 1933

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10. Monroe Power Station - 1916

    GLASS-PLATE NEGATIVE PRINT: The Monroe Substation or Power Station with a wye in the front. This location, where the line to Corsicana and Waco split, was known as Monroe Junction and located just north of Monroe Shops. The view, looking south from the junction of the Corsicana and Waco Divisions of Southern Traction, shows Monroe shops and the substation with the Texas Power and Light Company transformer yard in back. A Corsicana-bound tra...

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11. North Side of Monroe Shops Carbarn and Yard - ca 1920-1925

    GLASS-PLATE NEGATIVE PRINT: Texas Electric Railway Monroe Shops; north side looking south. In this photo, seen to the right of the Carbarn is the water tower and a storage shack. The Monroe Shops were built in 1914 to serve maintenance needs with a machine shop, car repair barn, paint shop, offices and a lecture hall. It remains the only example of an interurban railway maintenance facility in Texas and as such, has been listed on the Natio...

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12. North Side of TER Monroe Shops Carbarn - 1919

    GLASS-PLATE NEGATIVE PRINT: North Side of Monroe Shops Carbarn looking southwest. The Monroe Shops, completed in 1914, was built to serve the maintenance needs of the Southern Traction Company and Strickland's Texas Traction Company. Built at the junction of the Waco and Corsicana lines, four miles south of Dallas, it consisted of a machine shop, car repair barn, paint shop, offices and a lecture hall. It remains the only example of an inte...

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13. Rear View of Monroe Shops - 1948

    Texas Electric Railway Company Passenger Motor 350, Class A Locomotive 800 and an unidentified Passenger Motor (at left) inside the central bay of the Monroe Shops Carbarn; south side, looking north. Note power flows through the electrical wire (far left) hooked to the rail car trolley pole inside the shops. See: Map 3; Map 8, Detail A

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14. Rear View of Monroe Shops the Day After Abandonment of Service - 1949, January 1

    View north of the south side of Monroe Shops and Yard, the day after abandonment of passenger service. This view shows the following sections joined by interconnected walls: * A multi-level west (left) section comprised of a one-story building extension that housed the old paint and wood shops, which was interconnected to a two-story structure on the north that housed a hospital, offices and store rooms. * A central bay (two story struc...

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15. Southern Traction Interurban Motor 310 - 1913

    Southern Traction Company Interurban Motor 310, likely at Monroe Shops. The Motorman sitting at the controls is unidentified. See: Map 8, Detail A

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16. TER Box Car 2000 in Monroe Shops Yard - 1948, November 25

    SNAPSHOT: Texas Electric Railway Box Car 2000 in the east Monroe Shops Yard; right 3/4 view. Note the stacks of rails to the left of the box car. See: Map 3; Map 8, Detail A

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17. TER Box Car 2001 at Monroe Shops - 1948, November 25

    SNAPSHOT: Texas Electric Railway Box Car 2001 in the Monroe Shops Yard. See: Map 3; Map 8, Detail A

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18. TER Buses 1, 2, and 3 in Front of Passenger Trail Car 404 at Monroe Shops - 1925

    GLASS-PLATE NEGATIVE PRINT: Texas Electric Railway's first buses (1-3) are lined up on the east side of the Monroe Shops Carbarn. Dodge Brothers, Inc. had recently acquired Graham Brothers of Detroit. The buses, thus, had Graham bodies and Dodge chassis. One of the three buses was used for the Hull Street conversion in Denison and the other two for the Mulberry Street conversion in Sherman. They had twenty-one seats and the advertised co...

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19. TER Class A Locomotive 800 at Monroe Shops - 1948, November 25

    SNAPSHOT: Texas Electric Railway Company Class A Locomotive 800 in the Monroe Shops Yard; side view. Designed by Superintendent of Motive Power, Walter Silvus, locomotive 800, is the first of a modest fleet. Designated 'Class A', this and its sisters 801 and 802 were 600/1200 VDC machines rated at 400 ton hauling capacity. See: Map 3; Map 8, Detail A

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20. TER Class A Locomotive 800 at Monroe Shops - 1948, November 25

    SNAPSHOT: Texas Electric Railway Company Class A Locomotive Motor 800 in the Monroe Shops Yard; right 3/4 view. See: Map 3; Map 8, Detail A

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