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

The Electric City Trolley Museum hosted two “Now and Then" rides, giving riders an inside look of Scranton's early trolley ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...