Memphis Street Railway
Paper Materials

1908 streetcar route map of Memphis
http://www.wdbj.net/shelby/directories/1908memphis/railway_maps.htm

From December 31, 1913 Financial Report. Larger Version/td>
Bill Pollard Contribution

1922 Map of Memphis, showing various trolley routes.
Contributed by David Johnston, with help from City of Memphis Engineering Dept.

Map by Richard Andrews. Collection of Phil Gosney

Bill Pollard Contribution
April 4, 1908 issue of StreetRailway Journal, pages 530-533.

Bill Pollard Contribution
From a 1935-36 Memphis map, that shows the first trolley bus route #6-Lamar
Electric Coach which was installed in 1931 and extended in 1935.

Bill Pollard Contribution

Bill Pollard Contribution

Bill Pollard Contribution
1940 "souvenir guide booklet"

Contributed by Robert Tomb

Contributed by Robert Tomb

Contributed by Eugene Benton

Bill Pollard Contribution
October 1942 issue of Mass Transportation magazine. The magazine was apparently doing an ongoing series about mass transit in larger cities, and Memphis was #31 of their series... an interesting snapshot of the system as it existed in 1942.

Personal papers of Memphis Transit Company employee Thomas B. Mathis
Contributed by his grandson, Eugene Benton

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