HouTran

HouTran was a public transportation company that served the Houston area.

[1] However, it was not until June 24, 1871 that the Houston City Council passed an ordinance that granted the company right-of-way.

In 1877, the company's assets included three miles of track, fourteen streetcars, and about 100 mules.

Thus, both Carter, and Omaha and South Texas Land Company's director Daniel Denton Cooley are credited with having founded the Heights.

The Houston City Street Railway Company was placed in receivership on March 1, 1894.

Under another foreclosure, it was reorganized as the Houston Electric Company on October 26, 1901,[9] and purchased as a wholly owned subsidiary by the Boston-based engineering company Stone & Webster on November 1, 1901.

[12] Over time, buses continued to replace the streetcar until June 1940 when the entire system was converted to bus service.