Submitted by Ethan, who says:

Thought you might enjoy this hand-painted streetcar map of Lincoln, Nebraska from 1892 (Link to high-res PDF). I particularly enjoy the attempt at route colors and what appear to be marked stops.

Transit Maps says:

Oh, I definitely do enjoy this one, Ethan! From the blue background and white linework, it looks as if this may have originally been a blueprint drawing of the city that’s then been embellished by the artist with colours, the painted details in the parkland and cemetery, and the tiny red ink annotations of street numbers along the major blocks.

Regarding the route colouring, I’m not exactly sure what it’s trying to depict, as the colours can change from yellow to orange to red to green along the length of a single route. State of repair? Congestion of traffic? Maybe it’s purely artistic? Without a legend, it’s hard to tell. 

As for the “marked stops”, I think those are actually just short sections of double track along single track sections where two streetcars could safely pass each other. Such passing tracks may or may not have been in the same location as a stop: you can see that some of them span a couple of blocks or more.

Overall, this is a charming view of an early American streetcar network. I love it!

Source: History Nebraska (PDF link)