While depots and rolling stock get all the attention, it is the ephemera of a rail operation that can often be the rarest and most interesting aspects.  This Tidewater ticket from the interurban era is exceedingly mundane:  the road issued thousands before it stopped carrying passengers.  But it represents a tangible piece of the services that paid the bills.

It is interesting to note the dates possible.  This ticket batch would have been good up to the middle of World War II.  The interurban cars would end long before this ticket would run out of years, but the TS would actually continue carrying passengers, now in its cabooses, until the late 1950's.

Eugene John Vicknair collection

1930 Passenger Ticket

Tidewater Southern Railway