The Louisville Railway was a streetcar and interurban operator in Louisville, Kentucky.
It began under the name Louisville City Railway in 1859 as a horsecar operator and slowly acquired other rival companies and so renamed the company in 1880. Streetcar operations were terminated as bus operators like People's Transit Company began to compete for services in the city.
It later operated trolley buses but these operations ceased in 1951. Mergers later led to the creation of the Louisville Transit Company, which acquired LRC in 1951. The last streetcar operated in 1948. Twenty-five PCC cars numbered 501-525 were ordered by the company in 1944, but the order was cancelled before delivery was completed, and the cars were sold to the Cleveland Transit System where they became numbers 4250-4274.[1]
This company was one of many that merged to eventually form the Transit Authority of River City.