Union Traction Car 278

ID: 2426 ~ Date: Circa 1900
This file appears in: Union Traction Company Shops
Union Traction Car 278
Courtesy of the Indiana Historical Society

A Union Traction streetcar in Cincinnati, Ohio circa 1900. This car has a pilot, or cattle catcher, on the front end.

This file appears in: Union Traction Company Shops

By Anderson Public Library
In 1891, Charles Henry, a prominent attorney and politician from Anderson, acquired the “mule car” streetcar system in Anderson. In the six years following, he developed eleven miles of track inside the city on which twenty-one electric streetcars…