Interurban Railway Museum

I've been wanting to visit this place for a long time, and finally did today. The young man giving the tour was very knowledgeable. When he showed us inside the old Interurban car something began to click in my mind. I had a distant uncle who worked for the Interurban in Van Alstyne. The tour guide kept saying that this was a restored car, and it was the last car ever on the tracks. I pulled up a picture of my uncle on the family search app, and to my surprise he was standing in front of the exact same car that's at the museum! I showed the picture to the museum director, and he asked for a copy of it, so I emailed it to him.

We had such a great time visiting here. This building is historic to Plano and was built in 1908! The people working here were so fun and knowledgeable about the site and everything to do with trains. Even though the building is small, it felt like a full on museum experience with all the information and interactive stations they offered. We learned so much! Seeing the items that were used back in the early 1900's really made me feel in awe of how hard working people were back then and didn't even know it! We have come such a long way, technology wise, in the last hundred years it's almost unbelievable. Thank you for offering this to everyone!

It was very interesting to see what the train looked like on the inside. The person that was the tour guide was very knowledgeable. I've always enjoyed seeing a piece of our history. It's definitely worth a trip!