Citizens Street Railroad Company introduces horse car service on Calhoun street in 1872. The Centlivre Brewery started a horse car service on Spy Run serving the brewery in 1887. Fort Wayne Electric Railway company buys the lines and provides service with electric streetcars - adding service on Columbia Street - known as the Lakeside route in 1984. By the 1990 service was operated by the Fort Wayne Traction Company  Interurban service came to Fort Wayne in 1901 with service southwest to Huntington which consolidated with other interurban railway companies. This was what is today referred to as light rail. Individual cars, powered by electricity were operated by a motorman, with or without a conductor. Not only was intra-city transportation offered, but inter-urban as well. A number of systems were founded and investors merged them, so that by 1911 when it was reorganized as Fort Wayne Northern Indiana Traction Company, it reached Logansport, Bluffton and Wabash as well. In 1920, the company was purchased by Indiana Service Company, who transferred the inter-urban operations to Indiana Railroad. Fort Wayne was the center of the American light rail system, and boasted the only full cloverleaf in the world at "Transfer Corner", the intersection of Calhoun and Main. Despite the low cost - 25-mile trip to Bluffton cost 50 cents and took 52 minutes - ridership of the interurban system plummeted after a 1910 crash near Bluffton killed forty, and under pressure from auto ownership, never again reached 1910 levels. The traction company required power generation to operate. In 1907, Griswald reported "The new power station of the Fort Wayne & Wabash Valley Traction Company was completed at a cost of $800,000." The building still exists as home for Science Central. As homeowners needed power for lighting at night, when there were no cars running, they sold the electricity to homeowners. The interurban service of Indiana Railroad was discontinued in 1942 with the last streetcar being replaced with electric trolley buses in 1947. In 1948 Indiana Service Corporation sold the service to a private company called Fort Wayne Transit. by 1960 the last trolley bus was replaced with motor buses. By 1967 ridership of Fort Wayne Transit bus system was lagging and no longer profitable, as was the case for most bus companies at that time. The federal government established the Urban Mass Transportation Administration and offered grants to help cities support public transportation. The City of Fort Wayne established the Fort Wayne Public Transit Corporation as a public utility and purchased the assets of the private Fort Wayne Transit company in 1968.