Houston trolleys did not see World War II. This made it one of the earliest of the large cities to loose its rail service. Even today, Houston is the largest city with no rail service of any kind. We will not enter the swamp of Houston politics here, but we will show you some of the attractive cars which they operated. I have only a small amount of data at this time.

6 and 38 were a couple of the earliest cars.

178 was built by St. Louis Car in 1907, order #753A.

402, 408, and 410 are double truck Birneys photographed after conversion to single end. Note that the front pole is gone, but the base remains.

This was the ultimate for Houston. It never was better and never got better.

AMDG

11/6/1999