Operating Areas and Companies
There is considerable uncertainty and variability amongst sources as to where National City Lines operated.
The 1948 ruling stated that:
"Forty-four cities in sixteen states are included. The states are as widely scattered as California, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, Texas and Washington. The larger local transportation systems include those of Baltimore, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and Oakland. The largest concentrations of smaller systems are in Illinois, with eleven cities; California with nine (excluding Los Angeles); and Michigan with four. The local operating companies were not named as parties defendant."
This table attempts to bring together the many sources detailing cities which were at one time of another owned or controlled by National City Lines. A star (*) indicates that NCL is understood to have had significant control but not ownership:
- Alabama: Mobile, Montgomery
- California: Burbank, Eureka, Fresno, Glendale, Los Angeles*, Oakland*, Sacramento, Inglewood, Long Beach, San Jose, Pasadena, Stockton
- Florida: Tampa, Jacksonville*
- Illinois: Aurora/Elgin, Bloomington, Champaign, Danville, East St. Louis, Decatur, Galesburg, Joliet, Kewanee, LaSalle/Peru, Peoria, Quincy, Rock Island
- Indiana: South Bend, Terre Haute
- Iowa: Burlington, Davenport, Cedar Rapids, Ottumwa, Sioux City
- Maryland: Baltimore*
- Michigan: Jackson, Lansing, Kalamazoo, Saginaw, Pontiac
- Mississippi: Jackson
- Missouri: St. Louis*
- Montana: Butte, Great Falls
- Nebraska: Lincoln
- New York: New York
- Ohio: Canton, Portsmouth
- Oklahoma: Tulsa
- Pennsylvania: Philadelphia*
- Texas: Beaumont, El Paso, Houston, Port Arthur, Wichita Falls
- Utah: Salt Lake City
- Washington: Bellingham, Everett, Spokane
- Wisconsin: Oshkosh
Additional information: In Los Angeles the Los Angeles Railway (Yellow Lines) was controlled by NCL but not Pacific Electric Railway (Red lines)
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