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How a corporate conspiracy pushed Lincoln’s streetcar off the rails

Federal prosecutors later convicted National City Lines and its investors of monopolizing bus, tire and fuel markets after Lincoln’s trolleys were replaced.

Summary by Flatwater Free Press
By July 1945, Lincoln’s trolleys were on their deathbed.  A newspaper obituary for the streetcar declared that the once-indispensable mode of transportation was succumbing to natural causes.  “The gas engine put them in the discard, just as railroads did the stagecoach,” said a Lincoln Star editorial after the transit system’s owner moved to eliminate trolleys.  In cities like Omaha, streetcars did, in fact, die naturally. A postwar surge in car…

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How a corporate conspiracy pushed Lincoln’s streetcar off the rails

A transit company run by Nebraska natives bought Lincoln’s trolleys and replaced them with buses. Years later, a federal court case revealed the far-reaching scheme behind the move.

·Omaha, United States
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Flatwater Free Press broke the news on Thursday, June 4, 2026.
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