Award Winning Service
Northern Texas Traction actively fought the loss of passenger traffic to the private automobile. Its efforts to maintain ridership led the company to receive the Charles A. Coffin award in 1927. Numerous ideas to improve service and improve profits were implemented including the Birney Safety Car and Crimson Limited Interurban deluxe service.
NTT was one of the first 3 traction cities to obtain Birney Safety Cars, the first city to fully equip a line with Birney Cars and a member of the Presidents' Conference Committee, which produced the PCC streetcar (although PCCs did not see service in Fort Worth until the advent of the Tandy Center Subway).
Stone & Webster sold the company in 1934 as the result of diminishing profits and anti-trust action brought by the federal government. The last interurban run was completed on Christmas Eve, 1934. Streetcar service was maintained by the transit company until 1937 when the city charter was renewed and revised.
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