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PostPosted: Wed Jan 15, 2025 8:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Many decades ago, we see the "changing of the guard" at Dallas, with a stately old TEXAS ELECTRIC interurban about to be replaced by a sleek new FLXIBLE "Clipper"...............

www.newdavesrailpix.com/odds/tx/htm/te071.htm

(courtesy: davesrailpix)

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 15, 2025 8:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is another timeless "changing of the guard" photo taken at Dallas...........

www.newdavesrailpix.com/odds/tx/htm/te073.htm

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 15, 2025 8:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Recalling "LEONARD'S M&O SUBWAY", back in the early 1960s..........

www.newdavesrailpix.com/odds/tx/htm/tandy01.htm

www.newdavesrailpix.com/odds/tx/htm/tandy33.htm

www.newdavesrailpix.com/odds/tx/htm/tandy42.htm

www.newdavesrailpix.com/odds/tx/htm/tandy18.htm

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 12:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is an excellent collection of photos of the Dallas trolleybus system; last electric coaches ran in 1966.

Also, note photos of coaches equipped with rooftop a/c units..........

www.trolleybuses.net/dal/dal.htm

(courtesy: trolleybuses.net)
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 12:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Came across this interesting historical (TRAILWAYS) page.......

https://flashbackdallas.com/2020/09/06/labor-day-weekend-union-bus-depot-1952/

Note the TRAILWAYS ads; one also lists the connecting intercity lines at Dallas (one ad depicts an ACF-BRILL IC-41)............

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
Here is an excellent collection of photos of the Dallas trolleybus system; last electric coaches ran in 1966.

Also, note photos of coaches equipped with rooftop a/c units..........

www.trolleybuses.net/dal/dal.htm

(courtesy: trolleybuses.net)


Nice collection of photos. That's the way to do electric. Not batteries!
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 10:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cyberider:

Indeed!

When I'm out running errands about once a week or so, and I see an NJT bus go by (either a NABI or a New Flyer artic) I imagine them as trolleybuses, with poles raised, performing a delicate ballet along the overhead wires! Wink

Boston's MBTA was indeed foolish to end all trolleybus operations, several years back; of course, "going electric" with them means, as usual, battery buses........... Sad

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 10:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cyberider:

Here is the lone preserved "LEONARD'S M&O SUBWAY" PCC which I had mentioned earlier......truly magnificent! Wink

https://www.dctrolley.org/blog/outoftown

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 10:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Buses and interurbans share the platforms at Dallas, in this timeless scene from the 1940s! Wink

www.newdavesrailpix.com/odds/tx/htm/dit01.htm

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 10:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

These charming little buses looked old-fashioned even when new! Shocked

They certainly look quite miniscule, compared to those big steel electric cars! Wink

www.newdavesrailpix.com/odds/tx/htm/te072.htm

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 2:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lots of good things going on in Texas back in the day.

Got me looking at copies of the Texas Electric Album and the Galveston-Houston Electric Railway.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 2:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The following is from a 1952 "TECHE GREYHOUND" tt in my collection...........

A schematic map/diagram of "THE MISSION TRAIL ROUTE" has buses (starting at Miami) heading west, serving:

JACKSONVILLE

LAKE CITY

TALAHASSEE (service to Tampa via the last two cities)

MARIANNA

PENSECOLA

MOBILE

NEW ORLEANS

LAKE CHARLES

HOUSTON

At Houston, the route splits into two; one "branch" serves:

DALLAS

SAN ANTONIO

The two branches rejoin at:

EL PASO

then running west to:

PHOENIX

The route splits again, one heading towards:

SAN DIEGO, with other heading north to:

LOS ANGELES (and also SAN FRANCISCO)

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 4:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Though this timeless (circa-1940s) "rails 'n rubber" scene is from the Houston area, it was TOO GOOD not to include here! Wink

www.newdavesrailpix.com/odds/tx/htm/hns01.htm

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 5:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
Came across this interesting historical (TRAILWAYS) page.......

https://flashbackdallas.com/2020/09/06/labor-day-weekend-union-bus-depot-1952/

Note the TRAILWAYS ads; one also lists the connecting intercity lines at Dallas (one ad depicts an ACF-BRILL IC-41)............

"NYO"

["SUNSHINE TRAILWAYS"]

NYO--

Interesting depot shot from 1952. Judging from the photo demographics, it clearly was in the "Jim Crow" era.
Can you identify the bus seen thru the window? Could it be an early GM transit or perhaps an Aerocoach, judging from the windshield?
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 5:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
Though this timeless (circa-1940s) "rails 'n rubber" scene is from the Houston area, it was TOO GOOD not to include here! Wink

www.newdavesrailpix.com/odds/tx/htm/hns01.htm

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Now THAT'S what I'd call "intermodal"... Cool
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