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History The Terminal Building Built in 1916, The Terminal Building served as the headquarter for the Lincoln Traction Company, formed in 1897 as a reorganization of the Lincoln Street Railway Company. It was the major street railway company in the city until the end of streetcar services in 1945. The streetcars traveled 2,617,666 miles and carried 12,222,597 passengers in a year.
The First World War brought reduced income
Just three streetcar lines remained after 1931.
to Lincoln Traction Company, followed by labor
National City Lines, a bus operator, acquired
strife and a bloody strike in 1917. The company
Lincoln Traction Company in 1942 and
ran deficits in the early 1920s. as buses started
eliminated the company name, just one year
competing with its streetcars on the suburban
before abandoning Lincoln’s last streetcar line
lines. A holding company took over Lincoln
in 1943.
Traction in 1926. That same year the company began to acquire its own buses.
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