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Title |
TER Passenger Motor 308 Backing into Wye Near Denison Station |
Date |
ca 1948, August 23 |
Description |
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 railroad equipment, such as most steam locomotives or many passenger trains; especially those having a dedicated tail end car like an observation car. Individual locomotives and railroad cars can be turned on a turntable, but whole trains cannot. A wye, or loop, are the only ways of doing that. Railroads in America have more wyes than railroads elsewhere, and American locomotives and cars are much more likely to be directional than those elsewhere. This is a result of the railroad coming first, or at least early, and builders having much more freedom to lay down tracks where they wanted. Historyically in Europe, extensive use was made of bi-directional tank locomotives and push-pull trains. More recently, most European-use diesel locomotives and electric locomotives have been fully bi-directional (re: economic expert.com). See: Map 1, Detail 1, Denison Station Detail |
Place |
Denison, TX |
Photographer |
Townley, Robert P. |
Print Size |
5" x 7" |
Search Terms |
Car 308 Dallas-Denison Line East Main Street - Denison Grayson County North Houston Avenue - Denison Passenger Motor 308 Southern Ice Company Wye |
Collection |
Johnnie J. Myers Collection |
Credit To |
Robert P. Townley Collection |
Copyright |
The City of Plano / Interurban Railway Museum have all rights without restriction. |
Catalog Number |
CP.2007.CL.1-321 |