Cincinnati Street Railway (CSR) was the public transit operator in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1859 to 1952. The company ceased streetcar operations and was renamed Cincinnati Transit Company.[1]
The company was founded in 1859 and was one of several operators. The Cincinnati Consolidated Railway merged with CSR in 1880:
Passenger Railroad of Cincinnati 1859–1873 – merged with CCR
Route Nine Street Railroad 1859–1873 – merged with CCR
Pendleton Street Railroad 1860–1873 – merged with East and West Street Railroad Company and finally with CCR in 1873
Cincinnati, Walnut Hills, Avondale and Pleasant Ridge Street Railway 1874–1880 – merged with CSR
Storrs and Sedamsvill Street Railroad 1878–1880
Cincinnati and Clifton Incline Plane Railroad 1876–1880
Rees McDuffie 1884–1885
Cumminsville Street Passenger Railroad ?-1889
Walnut Hills and Cincinnati Street Railway 1872–1880
Mount Adams and Eden Park Incline Railway 1876–1881