Completing the Interurban (1913)

ID: 1908 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University ~ Creator: Fred Gildersleeve
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Completing the Interurban (1913)
Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University

The Dallas-to-Waco railway was part of a much larger network of interurban lines in the state of Texas. Together, these lines comprised almost 500 miles of railway, giving Texas the second-largest interurban railway system west of the Mississippi. In this photo, workers complete the laying of the roadbed on the west bank of the Brazos next to the ivy-covered Waco Suspension Bridge on the left.

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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…