The Jamestown Street Railway started trolley car operations on June 19, 1884 with the horse drawn cars. It provided a much improved means for traveling the rough and muddy city streets. For about 40 years it was the best way to get around town.
In 1891 the trolley lines were electrified. The horse drawn cars were phased out and the electric motor became the muscle that moved the trolley car.
In 1926 the Jamestown Street Railway purchased eight new St. Louis Car Company trolley cars. Numbered 91-98, they serviced the Willard Street and North-Newland lines. Trolley Car #93 was one of these.
Better roads, the automobile, and a new form of mass transportation, the bus, slowly started to cut into the trolley line profits. It was in January of 1938 that The Jamestown Street Railway trolley service ended.
The end of trolley service saw Car #93 and the rest of the 90's series cars stripped down and the bodies sold and used for cottages on Chautauqua Lake.
