Metropolitan Street Railroad Company

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The Metropolitan Street Railroad Company was an early streetcar company in Atlanta.

Organized by Lemuel Grant and others to serve the southeast side of town in 1882. It operated two lines:

• Pryor Street Line – South from the depot on Pryor to Garnett Street, to Pulliam Streen to Clark St, to Washington St, terminating at Crumley Street. Later extended out Washington to Georgia Avenue (the north east corner of today's Turner Field) and then east to Grant Park.
• Park Line – south on Pryor to Hunter St (MLK), to Fraser St to Fair St (Memorial Dr), thence east past Oakland Cemetery to the newly laid out Park Ave then south to Grant Park.

The original company did not do well financially and was sold in 1888 to Aaron Haas and W.H. Patterson. They laid new rail along all routes and began running dummies (steam driven engines). Their stables and car-house were on the southeast corner of Fair (Memorial) and Park Ave, the location of the new, under-construction Oakland Park lofts.

After passing through receivership, all was purchased by the Atlanta Consolidated Street Railway Company in 1892.