Louisville, KY, United States
Shelby St. Streetcar Barn. By 1895, this area was used by the Louisville City Railway Company as a car barn, when electric cars replaced mule-drawn cars. It was the primary operator of streetcars, which were the main mode of mass transit in Louisville from 1864 through the late 1920s, when they were
replaced with buses. The last streetcar ran on Derby Day, 1948. This road was once part of the Shelby St. streetcar line, which connected Germantown to downtown Louisville. This included the famous “
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