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

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

(courtesy: davesrailpix)

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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

(courtesy: davesrailpix)

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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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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"

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[Cyberider]

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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!

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...........

"NYO"

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Cyberider:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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[Cyberider]

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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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)

"NYO"

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

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

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