Fort Worth, Texas

=== History ===

==== Electric streetcars ====
[[File:Map Showing Lines of the Northern Texas Electric Company (Fort Worth) c 1907.png|thumb|"Map showing lines of the Northern Texas Electric Company (Fort Worth)", {{Circa|1907}}]]
[[File:Interurban Line between Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas.jpg|thumb|Interurban line between Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas (postcard, ''circa'' 1902–1924)]]

The first streetcar company in Fort Worth was the Fort Worth Street Railway Company. Its first line began operating in December 1876, and traveled from the courthouse down Main Street to the T&P Depot.<ref>{{cite book |last=Knight |first=Oliver |title=Fort Worth: Outpost on the Trinity |publisher=Texas Christian University Press |location=Fort Worth |isbn=0-87565-077-5 |page=85 |year=1990}}</ref> By 1890, more than 20 private companies were operating streetcar lines in Fort Worth. The Fort Worth Street Railway Company bought out many of its competitors, and was eventually itself bought out by the Bishop & Sherwin Syndicate in 1901.<ref>{{cite book |last=Knight |first=Oliver |title=Fort Worth: Outpost on the Trinity |publisher=Texas Christian University Press |location=Fort Worth |isbn=0-87565-077-5 |page=133 |year=1990}}</ref> The new ownership changed the company's name to the [[Northern Texas Traction Company]], which operated 84 miles of streetcar railways in 1925, and their lines connected downtown Fort Worth to TCU, the [[Near Southside, Fort Worth|Near Southside]], Arlington Heights, Lake Como, and the [[Fort Worth Stockyards|Stockyards]].

==== Electric interurban railways ====
At its peak, the electric interurban industry in Texas consisted of almost 500 miles of track, making Texas the second in interurban mileage in all states west of the Mississippi River. Electric interurban railways were prominent in the early 1900s, peaking in the 1910s and fading until all electric interurban railways were abandoned by 1948. Close to three-fourths of the mileage was in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, running between Fort Worth and Dallas and to other area cities including Cleburne, Denison, Corsicana, and Waco. The line depicted in the associated image was the second to be constructed in Texas and ran 35 miles between Fort Worth and Dallas. [[Northern Texas Traction Company]] built the railway, which was operational from 1902 to 1934.<ref>Robert A. Rieder, "Electric Interurban Railways," Handbook of Texas Online [https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqe12] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180719084222/https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqe12|date=July 19, 2018}}, accessed March 23, 2012. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.</ref>