 In earlier times, the electrified trains ran several schedules along these points.It was an incentive for each community's population to shop, work and visit the Houston metropolis, and return home in time for dinner.In the 1940s, the line was downgraded to diesel-busses, as the post-war economy emphasized personal transportation with automobiles eagerly produced by Detroit manufacturers to enable them to return to a peacetime, and profitable, footing.