To celebrate Alabama's establishment of the world's first electric streetcar system and get more people riding the trolleys, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...