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Galveston-Houston Electric Railway by Woods Interurbans
Galveston-Houston Electric Railway by Herb Woods Interurban Special No 22
Soft Cover
84 pages
Copyright 1976
CONTENTS
MAP3
INTRODUCTION6
THRU THE YEARS21
PASSENGER SERVICE27
Dispatching31
Deluxe Trains33
Miscellany35
Operating TT36
Public TT38 1912 & 1935 TT40 Schedule Graph41
FREIGHT SERVICE43
CARS45
Roster45
101-12147
123, 125, 15151
127, 12953
201-207, 20955
251, 253, 25557
INTERURBAN HURRICANE59
ALONG THE LINE65
City Trackage Maps 68
ALBUM74
INTRODUCTION
In November 1959, Ira L. Swett wrote a fine introduction. We are happy to present the information that pertained to the Galveston-Houston Electric Railway:
The staff of INTERURBANS is happy to turn over the reins to Mr. Herb Woods, native Texan and as rabid a booster for that state as could possibly be desired-even in Houston. All too little has been published on the electric railways of the state. In the pages to follow you will find just about everything one could possibly desire concerning the big blue electric trains which won the speed ribbon two years running. Special 22 will delight the heart of every true Texan, we sincerely hope, and will prove of deep interest to the less fortunate readers who, alas, live elsewhere.
In 1911, the year the GHE was built, Galveston had a population of about 40,000; it was the principal port on the Gulf of Mexico and ranked second only to New York City in the value of its annual exports. On and about its docks were 220 miles of steam railroad terminal trackage; its docks totaled five miles, and its warehouses had a total area of 95 acres. From Galveston you had your choice of three steamship lines to Liverpool, three to New York, and one each to Bremen, Cuba, Vera Cruz and Tampico. Houston, 45 miles to the northwest, had a population of about 90,000. It was the greatest cotton market in the world, was the center of the oil and lumber industries of the state, and was served by 18 railroad connections. Little wonder that an interurban between these two prosperous regions was a thriving undertaking until the automobile came along!
And now, continuing our introduction to a most fascinating electric railway, we present a reproduction of a descriptive article which appeared in the April, 1912, issue of "The Tangent," official publication of the Stone & Webster properties in Galveston and y' Houston. Appropriately enough, the title page features an interurban, a lovely young lady, and the Yellow Rose of Texas, famed in song and history.
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