Up by horse, down by gravity. In the late 1800s in present-day Englewood, electric streetcars stopped near Hampden and South ...

Electric-powered trolleys — or streetcars — previously provided that function from the late 19th... It’s been well over half a century since 69-year-old Anne Elise Morris of Wilkinsburg took ...

A Los Angeles Consolidated Electric streetcar, circa 1891-96. Courtesy of the USC Libraries - USC University Archives. By the turn of the twentieth century, the University Line had become the Los ...

There's a new cafe and museum on Windsor's riverfront. Mayor Drew Dilkens, members of City Council, and special guests gathered at 780 Riverside Drive West to mark the launch of Windsor’s latest ...

It has been something that city leaders and community advocates have talked about for some time: reincorporating electric streetcars into public transit, following the suit of cities like Seattle ...

The development of the streetcar (initially horse-drawn, later electric) made it possible for these middle class residents to move away from the industrial neighborhoods and form “suburbs” from which ...

Combining the superior traction of rubber automobile tires with the reliability of electric streetcar motors, the trackless trolleys drew their motive power from a pair of overhead catenary wires.