Local Enthusiast

ID: 1229 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University ~ Creator: Gordon Zahorik
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Local Enthusiast

The Waco railway caught the attention of train enthusiasts as well. Gordon Zahorik, a young solider stationed at Fort Hood with an interest in American railways, photographed the interurban trains as they traveled between Dallas and Waco during the mid-1940s and 1950s. Today, his photographs provide insight into the day-to-day operations of the Texas Electric Railway Company.

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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…