Austin, Texas streetcar system map, 1925 Size:24x36 much larger than it is

much larger than it is today

and ultimately the streetcar system was abandoned between 1958 and 1962 as expressway mania took over the country

New York built elevated railways

it would be merged into the city subway system of NYC

both nationally and internationally

Austin, Texas streetcar system map, 1925 Size:24x36 much larger than it isAustin's streetcar system was never particularly successful. Like many of its contemporaries, the Austin Transit Co. got its start as a speculative real estate venture. M. M. Shipe, its original owner, was a real estate developer who wanted to build houses in far away Hyde Park. So, to do that, he built an electric streetcar line in the 1890s connecting his new subdivision to central Austin. None of Shipe's successors could figure out a way to make