Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation

Fall History Lecture

Wires and Rails: The Story of Tucson’s

First Electric Street Railway

Thursday September 25^th 7:00pm – 9:00pm

The Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation is pleased to present its first fall lecture,

 “Wires and Rails: The Story of Tucson’s First Electric Street Railway” by Gene Caywood,

President and Chief Executive Officer of the Old Pueblo Trolley Museum.

In honor of Tucson’s new electric streetcar, we will look back at the

history of the electric streetcar system. The new “modern streetcar” isn’t

Tucson’s first streetcar system, but it is the fourth, and three of them were

powered by electricity.

The presentation will begin with a brief description of the horse/mule drawn omnibuses

and streetcars that preceded the first electric street railway.

It will then focus on the story of the electric streetcars (trolleys) that ran

from 1906 to 1930, their establishment, operation,

decline and replacement with motor buses.

The lecture will begin at 7 pm, doors open at 6:45 in the East Gallery at

St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church, 4440 N. Campbell Avenue (at River Road).

All are welcome to attend this free lecture.