KENOSHA, Wis. — When the auto plant here closed, this prosperous Wisconsin port city on Lake Michigan lost more than just its largest employer. Its sense of vitality seemed to drain away, and… ...

The first electric-powered streetcars began running in Indianapolis in 1890. Four years later, the last mule-powered train was retired. Electrification brought greater distance and speed.

Daft’s dream ended in 1889, when Frank Sprague invented the overhead trolley wire system that is still used today to power streetcars, and earning the title of Father of the Electric Streetcar.

“The city administrator describes electric trolley buses, so you can take advantage of the catenaries that charge the streetcars, but they are rubber tires,” Kershbaum said.

Electric streetcar system connected Manitowoc and Two Rivers in the early 1900s, before buses During winter, a snowplow mounted on the front of a car kept the tracks cleared.

San Pedro will receive two new electric passenger trolleys by the end of the year because of a $470,000 Community Emission Reduction Grant, local business officials announced on Tuesday, July 8.

The city’s first electric streetcar line ran on 93 rd Street between Stony Island and South Chicago avenues, in the Calumet Heights neighborhood. In 1890 this was a sparsely-settled district ...

(TNS) — Potential new pots of state and federal money for infrastructure projects has prompted a local group to make an attempt to bring back a storied South Bend tradition: electric streetcars.

SOUTH BEND — Potential new pots of state and federal money for infrastructure projects has prompted a local group to make an attempt to bring back a storied South Bend tradition: electric ...

The first streetcar line carried over 400,000 passengers in its first year, and after the switch to electric streetcars in 1889, railways spanned about 50 miles throughout the city, according to ...