Site of Fort Worth-Dallas Interurban

Wikipedia traces the line to George T. Bishop, who bought Fort Worth's City Railway in 1900 and also took the Dallas and Oak Cliff Elevated Railway to reach Dallas. The Northern Texas Traction Company, a Stone and Webster subsidiary after 1905, fought the automobile with Birney Safety Cars and a deluxe Crimson Limited service, and won the Coffin medal in 1927. It also built a trolley park called Lake Erie. Stone and Webster sold in 1934 amid falling profits and a federal antitrust action, and Fort Worth streetcars kept running until 1937.

What the plaque says

Site of Fort Worth-Dallas Interurban In 1901 the Texas Legislature authorized the Northern Texas Traction Company of Fort Worth to extend rail service to Dallas. The interurban system, powered by overhead electrical lines, was completed one year later. The thirty-five mile trip took just over an hour. Passengers could flag the train and board at any point on the route. Each car held up to forty travelers. Rail traffic began to decline in the 1930s when paved roads were constructed between the two cities, and the last train made the interurban run on Christmas Eve, 1934. (1980)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tarrant County Courthouse — 6.9 mi
  A pink-granite courthouse of 1895 on the bluff where the Army set up Fort Worth in 1849, in a county named for the man who led the 1841 attack on the Native villages of Village Creek.
• Fort Worth Stockyards — 8.4 mi
  The brick-street cattle market where Armour and Swift built packing plants in 1902, now a National Register district with a Coliseum, a museum and a longhorn drive twice a day.
• Kimbell Art Museum — 8.5 mi
  Louis Kahn's cycloid-vaulted museum of 1972, built from Kay Kimbell's bequest and joined in 2013 by Renzo Piano's pavilion for the exhibitions the Kahn galleries could not hold.
• National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame — 8.7 mi
  A hall of fame begun in Hereford in 1975 to honor rodeo women, widened in 1977 to Western heritage, and housed in Fort Worth's Cultural District since 2002.

More markers nearby

• Handley Cemetery — steps away
• General Edward H. Tarrant — 2.0 mi
• Meadowbrook Methodist Church — 2.9 mi
• WBAP-TV - Channel 5, First Television Station in Texas — 2.9 mi