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1. Map - Hand-drawn Northern Texas Traction Map Ft Worth to Dallas

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2. 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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3. TER 'Extra' Passenger Motor 328 on Waxahachie Station Wye - 1948, July 3

   SNAPSHOT: Texas Electric Railway Passenger Motor 328 at the Waxahachie Station yard on the wye. Note the prominent white flags on each side of the car. These indicated a car was a 'Special', in this case a 'Dallas Special' as noted on the front sign by the passenger entry. Another term for this type car was an 'extra'; in this case, 'extra 328'. The flags were also used to indicate a car was not on a schedule; it was running between sched...

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4. TER Passenger Motor 308 Backing into Wye Near Denison Station - ca 1948, August 23

   Texas Electric Railway Passenger Motor 308 backing into the wye at [north] Houston Avenue and [east] Main Street in Denison, TX, 1948. A WYE (American railroad terminology) or triangle (British terminology) is a triangular-shaped arrangement of tracks with a Y-shaped switch at each corner and sufficiently long track leading away from each corner to allow a train of any length to be turned. Turning is required for any directional piece of rai...

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