Photograph of West Broad Street showing the construction of the Columbus Railway, Power & Light Company tracks in the brick paved street. The view is looking west just west of Central Avenue, across from the Ohio Institution for Feeble Minded Youth. This view shows the opposite or north side of Broad Street. There are several homes along the street. Notes included with this image indicate a man was injured at this site. Public transportation began in Columbus in 1863 with the introduction of horse drawn cars on North High Street. The horse cars were starting to be replaced by electric cars in the late 1880s. A short experimental electric rail line was constructed between North High Street and the Ohio State Fair Grounds on Chittenden Avenue in 1888. In the early 1890s there were several small independent electric street railway companies operating in the city of Columbus, Ohio. They were all brought together under one management as the Columbus Street Railway Company in 1892. When the electric power company was added the name was changed to the Columbus Railway & Light Company and later changed again to the Columbus Railway, Power & Light Company (CRP&L), then to the Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric Company (1937). Electric street rail transportation came to an end in Columbus in September 1948.