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Omaha once torched its streetcars. Could their revival be part of a downtown renaissance?
Editor’s note: This story is part of a collaboration between The Reader and Flatwater Free Press examining Omaha’s future streetcar. The day after officials and businessmen took a ceremonial final trip on Omaha’s streetcar in 1955, junkers lit nearly a dozen trolleys on fire at a scrapyard by the Missouri River. Local leaders at the…
