Dallas streetcar system and connecting interurbans map print, 1919 Size:12x16 very large poster

very large poster

My cousin commissioned this map of the old Boston Elevated Railway rapid transit network to put on their wall

This map was featured in Atlas Obscura and Hoodline

is only financially feasible in the absence of alternatives

Dallas streetcar system and connecting interurbans map print, 1919 Size:12x16 very large posterDallas had the largest streetcar system in Texas during the interwar period. I drew a map of the system near its height in 1919. In addition to the local streetcar system, the interurban system covered an area substantially larger than the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex is today, going as far as Waco, 80 miles away. This system, like most other streetcar systems in the United States, was eventually dismantled, though some parts of the system survived