Huaco Heights (c. 1920)

ID: 1236 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Waco Tribune-Herald
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Huaco Heights (c. 1920)

A conductor poses at the entrance to the streetcar with a young girl and her dog. This streetcar line operated separately from other Waco companies, though it leased equipment from Citizens Railway Company. When the Huaco Heights line closed in the summer of 1927, many commuters found themselves walking to work.

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…