The Arkansas Valley Interurban operated between Wichita and Hutchinson in Kansas, and has an interesting history as told by Hilton & Due. Passenger service ended in 1938, but freight service continued until 1942, when the rails were requisitioned for a wartime scrap drive.
None of these pictures have any information, except for the location of #202.
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5 comments:
Morning Randall - thanks for posting these! The line-up of 500-series box motors is Texas Electric alongside the Dallas freight terminal. Art
Sorry! Thanks for the correction. We have a good-sized collection of Texas Electric, so I guess I'll have to start on that next!
The AVI had a single GE steeple-cab locomotive, which went on to a second career on the North Shore Line.
Thank you for sharing these great shots! I don't think I've seen any of them before.
Car 202's location appears to be the Wichita, Kansas, Arkansas Valley Interurban (AVI) freight station, based on the architectural details of the building visible to the right in the image (Collins, p. 36). Car 202 was constructed in 1916 by the St. Louis Car Company and was scrapped following the end of electrification (Collins, p. 35).
Reference
Collins, Robert. Arkansas Valley Interurban: The Electric Way. South Platte Press, 1999.
David Snook
Wichita, KS
Thanks, it always helps to have information from people with local knowledge. And now that I look at a map, the AVI went nowhere near Oak Valley, Kansas. So that's sort of mysterious.
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