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Plano Interurban Station Texas Electric Railway

 TEXAS ELECTRIC RAILWAY STATION


BUILT IN 1908 BY THE TEXAS

TRACTION COMPANY (TEXAS ELECTRIC

RAILWAY AFTER A MERGER IN 1917),

THIS STATION SERVED PASSENGERS

AND FREIGHT CUSTOMERS OF THE

COMPANY'S NORTH TEXAS ROUTES. THE

WOOD FRAME PASSENGER DEPOT AND

THE ATTACHED BRICK FREIGHT/ELECTRIC

TRANSFORMER SECTION REMAINED

IN USE UNTIL 1948, WHEN THE RAIL

SYSTEM DECLINED IN FAVOR OF AUTO-

MOBILE TRAVEL. IT IS ONE OF THE

FEW REMINDERS OF PLANO'S EARLY

20TH-CENTURY TRANSPORTATION HISTORY.

Texas Historical marker, 1990