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1. 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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2. 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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3. 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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4. Map - Hand-drawn Texas Electric Railway Waco/Corsicana Division Map 7

   Writing the Book Texas Electric Railway

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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. Scrapbook - Texas Electric Railway Reference Scrapbook [Pg 37]

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10. 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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11. TER Class A Locomotive 801 at Monroe Shops - 1948, November 25

    Texas Electric Railway Company Class A Locomotive 801 on the east side of the Monroe Shops Carbarn, in the yard; front view. See: Map 3; Map 8, Detail A

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12. TER Class A Locomotive 801 at Monroe Shops - 1948, November 25

    SNAPSHOT: Texas Electric Railway Company Class A Locomotive 801 on the east side of the Monroe Shops Carbarn, in the yard; left 3/4 view. As of May 2021, this locomotive is owned by Wayne Patterson, of Boone, IA and is in a local Trolley Museum. See: Map 3; Map 8, Detail A

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13. TER Class A Locomotive 802 at Monroe Shops - 1941, July 31

    Texas Electric Railway Company Class "A" Work Motor 802 on the east side of the Monroe Shops Carbarn; right side view. Built in 1929 as 850, in the Company shops, and designated 'Class A', this and its sisters 800 and 801 were 600/1200 VDC machines rated at 400 ton hauling capacity. 850, originally 600 volt only was converted to 600/1200 volt and renumbered 802 in 1938. See: Map 3; Map 8, Detail A

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14. TER Class A Locomotives 801 and 802 at Monroe Shops - 1948, November 25

    SNAPSHOT: Texas Electric Railway Company Class A Locomotives 801 and 802 on the east side of the Monroe Shops Carbarn. See: Map 3; Map 8, Detail A

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15. TER Class A Work Motor 800 - 1948, September

    SNAPSHOT: Texas Electric Railway Company Class "A" Locomotive 800 and an unidentified Passenger Motor inside the central bay (east side) of the Monroe Shops Carbarn. Both are likely on the middle of three tracks that ran through that side of the building. Entry into this central bay was from the south, so the end of 800 shown here is pointed north. See: Map 3; Map 8, Detail A

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16. TER Class B Locomotive 902 and Wrecked Passenger Motor 366 - 1948, November 25

    SNAPSHOT: Texas Electric Railway Company Class B Locomotive 902 and a wrecked Passenger Motor 366 at Monroe Shops Yard; view looking northeast. To the left, in the background, are sections of the central and east bays of the Carbarn. To the right of 902 is a shed that was used for sand and track flares. See: Map 3; Map 8, Detail A

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17. TER Class B Locomotive 902 and Wrecked Passenger Motor 366 - 1948, November 25

    SNAPSHOT: Texas Electric Railway Company Class "B" Locomotive 902 and a wrecked Passenger Motor 366 in the Monroe Shops Yard, on the south side of the Carbarn; view looking northwest. The shack to the left was used to store track spikes. See: Map 3; Map 8, Detail A

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18. TER Class B Locomotive 902 at Monroe Shops - 1948, November 25

    SNAPSHOT: Texas Electric Railway Company Class B Locomotive 902 (as abandoned); front view. The motor was silver in color with a black roof. The locomotive is sitting in the south Monroe Shops yard, in front of the central bay of the Carbarn. See: Map 3; Map 8, Detail A

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19. TER Class B Locomotive 903 at Monroe Shops - 1948, November 27

    SNAPSHOT: Texas Electric Railway Company Class B Locomotive 903 sits inside the Monroe Shops Carbarn; front view. See: Map 3; Map 8, Detail A

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20. TER Class B Locomotive 904 at Monroe Shops - 1941, July 31

    Texas Electric Railway Company Class "B" Locomotive 904 in the Monroe Shops Yard. This appears to be on the north side of the central bay of the Carbarn. In 1934, Passenger Motor 325 burned on a Saturday night in the fall of 1934. This car sat in the yard for some months before being converted into Locomotive 904. 904, was used as a 1200 volt freight motor until the final days of Texas Electric Railway Company in 1948. It was one of two...

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