TRANSIT SYSTEMS IN OHIO

COLUMBUS AREA

Horse Car
1879-1892 - Columbus Consolidated Street Railroad Co.
1887-1890 - Columbus Electric Railway
1887-1892 - horse cars replaced with electric streetcars

1892-1899 - Columbus Street Railway Co.
1899-1903 - Columbus Railway Co.
1903-1914 - Columbus Railway & Light Co.
1914-1937 - Columbus Railway Power & Light Co.
1926 - buses introduced
1937-1945 - Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric Co.
1948 - streetcars discontinued
1933-1965 - operated trolleybuses

1949-1974 - Columbus Transit Co.

CURRENT TRANSIT SYSTEM (SINCE 1974)
Central Ohio Transit Authority

1892-1898 - Delaware Electric Street Railway Co.
1898-1902 - Delaware Street Railway Co.
1902-1917 - Columbus Delaware & Marion Railway Co.
1917-1933 - Columbus Delaware & Marion Electric Co.
1926 - streetcars replaced with buses

CURRENT TRANSIT SYSTEM
Delaware Area Transit Agency

HISTORIC INTERURBAN RAILWAY
Columbus-Marion-Bucyrus (1903-1933)

Replacement interurban bus service operated by Marion-Lima Transit Co. (1933-1939)
Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines (after 1939)

HISTORIC INTERURBAN RAILWAY
Delaware-Magnetic Springs-Richwood
1904-1906 - Delaware & Magnetic Springs Railway Co.
1906-1906 - Richwood & Magnetic Springs Railway Co.
1906-1919 - Columbus Magnetic Springs & Northern Railway Co.

Horse Car
1890-1895 - Lancaster Street Railroad Co.
1895-1896 - Lancaster Electric Railway Co.
1896-1906 - Lancaster Traction Co.
1897 - horse cars replaced with electric streetcars

1906-1937 - Lancaster Traction & Power Co.
1937 - streetcars discontinued

After 1937 - Lancaster Transit

CURRENT TRANSIT SYSTEM
Lancaster Public Transit System

Horse Car
1887-1892 - Newark City Railway Co.
1891 - horse cars replaced with electric streetcars

Electric Streetcar
1888-1898 - Newark & Granville Electric Street Railway Co.
1898-1900 - Newark Consolidated Electric Railway Co.
1900-1904 - Newark & Granville Street Railway Co.
1904-1925 - Columbus Newark & Zanesville Electric Railway Co.
1925-1926 - Southern Ohio Public Service Co.
1926 - streetcars discontinued

1926-1964 - City Rapid Transit Co.
After 1964 - City Rapid Transit Lines

CURRENT TRANSIT SYSTEM
Licking County Transit Board

Historic suburban/interurban bus lines operated by several companies (mostly a 1952 sampling)