page_title: Streetcars in St. Louis
section_title: Historical streetcar service
hierarchical_section_title: Streetcars in St. Louis / Historical streetcar service
caption_attribution_description: English: Erastus Wells, US Representative from Missouri
context_page_description: Streetcars in St. Louis, Missouri operated as part of the transportation network of St. Louis from the middle of the 19th century through the early 1960s. During the first forty years of the streetcar in the city, a variety of private companies operated several dozen lines; from the start of the 20th century, most of these companies consolidated into the St. Louis Public Service Company, which served both the city of St. Louis and neighboring St. Louis County, Missouri. Other private companies, such as those serving the Metro East region or St. Charles, Missouri, continued separate operations. Starting in the 1930s and continuing through the 1960s, St. Louis Public Service ended all streetcar service, while other regional operators also ended their services.
caption: Erastus Wells began an omnibus service in St. Louis in 1843
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