Our Picture Of The Week.

November 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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Our Picture of the Week is an Our Iowa Heritage blog series that offers you a little bit of Iowa trivia from a large selection of stories on our website.

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