Interurban vs. Streetcar
by Paula Bosse
Oh dear… (click for larger image)
by Paula Bosse
I’m not sure what’s happened here, but it looks like the interurban has emerged victorious.
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Sources & Notes
I don’t know the original source of this photo, but I came across it on the Northern Texas Traction History Group on Facebook. The electric-powered interurban car is the big red one on the left; the puny (but cute) electric-powered green streetcar is on the right. The view here is looking north on Record, from just south of Young Street, inside what would one day be called “Communications Center”: the Dallas Morning News Building is on the left, and the not-yet-built WFAA studios will later be to the immediate right (east). The long-gone Hotel Jefferson is north of Ferris Park (the hotel was catty-corner from Union Station, across Houston Street). In the distance you can see the tippy-top of the Old Red Courthouse, just above the green streetcar. Also, those now-gone smokestacks that were such a fixture on the skyline are straight ahead.
Click photo for larger image.
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Flashback : Dallas 
[…] to the north. (You can see the tracks running right next to the DMN in a photo in a previous post, here.) According to one of the […]
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“[The] Hotel Jefferson…used to face Union Station across Houston Street.”
Actually, the Jefferson sat cater-cornered across from Union TERMINAL.
Silly little point, but it does seem to matter.
Honestly, Paula, I enjoy your site very much. I only wish the train-loving pedant within me was consistently satisfied with your approach to railway matters!
Oh, well. At least you understand the difference between streetcars and interurbans – and refuse to use the horrific term “trolley” to describe the former!
Best wishes,
Garl B. Latham
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Thanks for pointing out the Jefferson Hotel error. I’ve corrected it.
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No one seems to have noticed that there has been a collision between the two cars.
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I noticed!
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