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After 4 robberies, this Fort Worth streetcar ‘motorman’ shot a fifth robber dead

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By Richard Selcer
| Fort Worth Star-Telegram
“Motorman” was the official name for streetcar operators in the early 20th century, a distinctly different job than conductor. Motormen drove their routes day and night, year-round for the companies that owned the lines crisscrossing Fort Worth. Conductors were on the downtown routes to collect fares and help people on and off. But motormen had no such companion on the suburban routes, which could be lonely, and even dangerous, at night.
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After 4 robberies, this Fort Worth streetcar ‘motorman’ shot a fifth robber dead

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By Richard Selcer
| Yahoo Life
“Motorman” was the official name for streetcar operators in the early 20th century, a distinctly different job than conductor. Motormen drove their routes day and night, year-round for the companies that owned the lines crisscrossing Fort Worth. Conductors were on the downtown routes to collect fares and help people on and off. But motormen had no such companion on the suburban routes, which could be lonely, and even dangerous, at night.
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In 1879, Fort Worth faced crisis when new Western Trail competed with Chisholm Original

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By Richard Selcer
| Fort Worth Star-Telegram
An early street scene in Fort Worth from the 1870s or 1880s showing merchants and saloons that relied on cattle season along Chisholm Trail to bring in business. The first longhorn cattle drive came through Fort Worth in 1866 on the way north to the railhead in Kansas – Abilene first, later Wichita or Newton. For the next decade, herds came through every season on what was variously known at the Eastern or McCoy Trail (or as the Chisholm Trail in Fort Worth legend).
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