The Capital City Street Railway, also known as the Lightning Route, was the first citywide system of streetcars established in Montgomery, Alabama, on April 15, 1886.

Joseph Arthur Gaboury, a French Canadian from Quebec, was the owner of the horse-drawn system that was converted to electricity.

It was on this system that Montgomery's segregated racial seating was established in the early 1900s, which continued on the city buses after 1936.

[3] However, the city council passed the Montgomery Streetcar Act in 1906 that further mandated a continuation of segregation.

[4] Segregation ended with the famous Montgomery bus boycott started by Rosa Parks and led by Rev.