Bracket to Support Texas Transportation Wire Lamar Street San Antonio TX

Amazingly, poles and brackets for the wires that powered the locomotives of the Texas Transportation Company are still intact in this area.

 

The Pearl Brewery was a unique holdout with its own pair of electric freight locomotives as part of its wholly owned Texas Transportation Company that interchanged with Southern Pacific-later Union Pacific-in San Antonio until the plant closed in 2000 and owner Pabst moved production elsewhere.

 

Texas Transportation served not only the Pearl brewery but dozens of other industries at its height including the nearby Lone Star Brewery and Samuels Glass.

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