The West End and Atlanta Street Railroad Company was the next company to expand horse drawn service to the west side with a line connecting to Westview Cemetery via West End Avenue and Ashby Street (presently Ralph David Abernathy Avenue). In addition to normal service, the West End and Atlanta Street Railroad Company offered funeral processions to Westview Cemetery for 15 to 25 dollars (Martin 1975:14). Even with the supplemental revenue, continued litigation and lack of ridership forced the company into foreclosure four years later.

T.J. Hightower and Thomas G. Healey bought the West End and Atlanta in the hopes of improving profitability. Hightower was one of the original petitioners for the charter of Westview Cemetery in 1884; and it has remained privately owned until the present (Garrett 1954:71). Additionally, Healey was acting chairman of the city council’s street committee, which in 1883 recommended the ongoing litigation plaguing the prior owners of the West End and Atlanta Street Railroad Company be dismissed (Carson 1982:9). After taking control in 1887, Hightower and Healey purchased two steam powered streetcars, or “dummy” cars, from a Virginia company which began service soon after. The new conveyances were loud and their exhausted was considered a nuisance by residents living adjacent to the line. The West End and Atlanta eventually abandoned the new technology to resume the use of mule drawn cars (Carson 1982, Martin 1975:20).