November 17, 1910 – James H. Maggard’s dream becomes a reality as the first Iowa City street car rolls from the Rundell neighborhood into downtown Iowa City.

Like the CRANDIC Interurban, the street cars of the Iowa City Electric Railway were powered by overhead electricity, but unlike the CRANDIC, these trolleys traveled throughout our fair city for only a short period of 20 years (1910-1930) before being replaced by motorized buses.

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