Interurban Coming Through
by Paula Bosse
Street traffic used to be a lot different… (click for larger image)
by Paula Bosse
Great photo of Interurbans trundling down Commerce Street, past the Adolphus Hotel. …Wish I’d been there.
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Sources & Notes
Photo is from the Dallas Area Rapid Transit archives, but I neglected to note a linkable source. (Click photo to see a larger image.)
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Copyright © 2019 Paula Bosse. All Rights Reserved.
Flashback : Dallas 
I LOVE that giant, white bay window on the building right behind the Interurban car – wonder what that building was?
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I think it’s part of the Adolphus annex. See the photos here: https://flashbackdallas.com/2015/04/21/adolphus-and-its-annex/
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This photograph also includes the finest image of the Katy’s (Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway) City Ticket Office I’ve ever seen!
Wow. [sigh]
Thanks, Paula
Garl B. Latham
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Yeah, I was very happy to see that!
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Approximately what year is that photo?
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I’m not sure. DART had the date as “1940s” but it looks a little older to me. The car at the right might help with the date.
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I’m not an expert on cars of the 1940s but the car on the left (grille is visible) looks like something from about 1948 or so to me. I very much doubt that the photo is before 1940.
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Looks like car 305 is on display in Corsicana: https://www.flickr.com/photos/23711298@N07/7539952756/
Note that the information about the service history of the car at Flickr may be a little off. Here is a Corsicana Daily Sun article with a brief history of car 305: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~txnavarr/transportation/interurban_train_article1.htm
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I took the photo and provided the info about the car refereed to above. The service info about the car is NOT “a little off,” if the plaque at the site is correct, and I trust that it is. The plaque reads,
“Texas Electric Railway was the longest interurban route in the
southwest, running through Dallas, north to Denison and south to Corsicana. No. 305 ran from 1917 until 1941.”
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So then we know this photo is from 1941 at the latest!
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No. If you read the Corsicana Daily Sun article it says that after the Corsicana line closed, car 305 ran on the Waco Line until its demise in 1948. Both the Waco and Corsicana lines used the same tracks at the location of the photo so it could be as late as 1948.
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Why would a Corsicana to Waco line run through Dallas? That’s the opposite direction?
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Texas Electric Railway did not operate a Waco to Corsicana line. There was a Dallas to Waco line and a Dallas to Corsicana line.
Sorry about replying to your original comment. There isn’t a reply button on your last comment.
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I am pretty sure the car did not go to Denison. They started out as separate companies. The Texas Traction Company operated the Dallas to Denison line and the Southern Traction Company operated the Dallas to Corsicana line. So there were of course different cars on the two separate lines and I am pretty sure it stayed that way after they merged into the Texas Electric Railway in 1917.
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What a find! I’m ready to board whenever…
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