Evansville Street Railroad Co

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c1895	built
c1960	rebuilt?
c1955	Torn down

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built >1884 <1895 Evansville Street Railway organized year after civil war for mule drawn cars CITY TRANSIT HISTORY 1866-1886 - Evansville Railroad Co. 1886-1901 - Evansville Street Railroad Co. 1901-1906 - Evansville Electric Railway Co. 1906-1909 - Evansville & Southern Indiana Traction Co. 1909-1912 - Evansville & Southern Indiana Traction Co. (Union Railway Gas & Electric Co.) 1912-1913 - Public Utilities Co. (Union Railway Gas & Electric Co.) 1913-1920 - Public Utilities Co. (Commonwealth Power Railway & Light Co.) 1920-1929 - Southern Indiana Gas & Electric Co. (Commonwealth Power Railway & Light Co.) 1929-1948 - Southern Indiana Gas & Electric Co. (Commonwealth & Southern Corp.) 1939 - streetcars discontinued 1948-1959 - Evansville City Coach Lines (City Coach Lines, Inc.) After 1959 - Evansville City Transit http://interurbans.indianarailroads.org/remnants/larryslist/19SIGECo.htm Southern Indiana Gas & Electric Co. ~ 3/7/1921 to 8/15/1933 (Evansville city - 4/30/1939) Public Utilities Co. ~ 6/10/1912 to 3/7/1921 (name change) Evansville & Southern Indiana Traction Co. ~ 12/24/1906 to 6/10/1912 (sold) Evansville & Princeton Traction Co. ~ 9/13/1901 to 12/24/1906 (merged into E&SIT Co.) and Evansville Electric Railway ~ 4/16/1901 to 12/24/1906 (merged into E&SIT Co.) Evansville Street Railroad Co. ~ 5/15/1886 to 4/16/1901 (foreclosure sale) Evansville Railroad Co. (reorganized) nicknamed Riverside Garage?

rebuilt >1910 <1962 bus garage

razed >1994 near merigot

See also

Transportation:Road

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