Milwaukee streetcar system map, 1904 Size:18x24 Two years later

Two years later

but it got its start as a combination streetcar operator

I've used the MTA's modern color scheme

unusually among North American cities

which established a monopoly over both electricity and transportation in the late 19th century

Milwaukee streetcar system map, 1904 Size:18x24 Two years laterMilwaukee's streetcar system was run by The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Co. (TMER&L), which established a monopoly over both electricity and transportation in the late 19th century. For most of its existence, the company was an unpopular outsider in Milwaukee. The company was originally organized by a New York businessman named Henry Villard and local Republican boss Henry Clay Payne, who bought out most of Milwaukee's horse pulled streetcar