Safe, Sure Saving

ID: 1226 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University
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Safe, Sure Saving

This Waco streetcar from the late 1920s had been repainted orange and black shortly before this photograph was taken. Streetcars such as this likely provided Baylor students as well as Wacoans reliable transportation to and from downtown.

This file appears in: Interurban Railway

By Terri Jo Ryan
Waco was a city on the move at the turn of the twentieth century, and its run into modernity was aided by the advent of the interurban electric railway. Although Waco had other forms of mass transit since the days of the stagecoach, with first…