Carbarn

ID: 1231 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University ~ Creator: Gordon Zahorik
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Carbarn

When not operating throughout the city, the Texas Electric Railway streetcars sat int he carbarn positioned at the east end of Franklin Avenue. Note the McLennan County courthouse visible in the background of this picture.

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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…