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Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway and Bridge Company
The Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway and Bridge Company, known as O&CB, was incorporated in 1886 in order to connect Omaha, Nebraska with Council Bluffs, Iowa over the Missouri River. With a sanctioned monopoly over streetcar service in the two cities,〔(Seilegman Syndicate Deal" ), ''The New York Times.'' August 14, 1902. Retrieved 4/11/08.〕 the O&CB was among the earliest major electric street railway systems in the nation, and was one of the last streetcar operators in the U.S., making its last run in 1955.〔Mead & Hunt, In. (2006) ''(Reconnaissance Survey of Portions of South Central Omaha: Nebraska Historic Buildings Survey ).'' City of Omaha and Nebraska State Historical Society. p 5.〕
==Background==
The predecessor of the O&CB was the Omaha Horse Railway Company, which was incorporated by an act of the Nebraska Legislature in 1867. Electric streetcar service in Omaha is said to be the outgrowth of the 1887 Omaha Motor Railway, which was formed when the Omaha Horse Railway and the Omaha Cable Tramway Company were consolidated under the leadership of Samuel D. Mercer.〔Larsen, L.H., Cottrell, B.J. and Dalstrom, H.A. (2007) ''Upstream Metropolis: An Urban Biography of Omaha and Council Bluffs.'' University of Nebraska Press. p. 151.〕
George F. Wright, builder of the 1868 Council Bluffs Street Railway company, organized the Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway and Bridge Company in 1886, along with Frank Murphy and Guy C. Barton of Omaha and John T. Stewart, Thomas J. Evans and George F. Wright of Council Bluffs.〔("Omaha's First Century: Installment VI," ) ''Omaha World-Herald.'' Retrieved 4/10/08.〕 Majority stockholders included Marshall Field of Chicago and U.S. Senator Joseph Millard of Nebraska, and officials from the American Smelting Company.〔
The last horse car route in the city ceased operation in June 1895.〔
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