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THE UNITED STATES STREETCARS:
MORE AND MORE ROLLING RAIL MILES
ALL RAIL: CABLECARS. STREETCARS, TRAINS, & SUBWAYS with AERIAL TRAMS
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| LINKS CONTINUALLY ADDED! |
ALABAMA
"There is more real danger... in a Texas mule's heels than in all the electric motor system." - Montgomery Advertiser
MONTGOMERY
"The Lightning Route" - Montgomery, Alabama History
BIRMINGHAM
"Birmingham (England) Puts Birmingham (Alabama) to Shame" - Streetsblog USA (2021)
Birmingham Rails [History - information]
Birmingham Rails [Films]
Birmingham Amtrak Train Station
ALASKA
Alaska Railroad
Alaska Railroad - Improvements & Projects
"Train Whistle Reduction" - Alaska Railroad:
"Ridership Forecast" - Alaska Railroad [Even Alaska has automobile congestion]
ARIZONA
PHOENIX
WHAT PHOENIX WANTS - PHOENIX GETS!!!!:
AT LEAST 62 MILES OF STREETCAR SERVICE THROUGHOUT PHOENIX BY 2050!!!!
"Transit improvements entail tripling the number of light rail miles in Phoenix by adding 42 miles of high capacity
corridors across the city. Connections to educational institutions are a key element of Transportation
2050. Light rail corridors will provide service to Grand Canyon University and ASU West, linking ASU and University of Arizona
campuses in downtown Phoenix to the Valley’s current 20-mile light rail line."
Baltimore, Phoenix has thrown down the Streetcar Gauntlet!!!!
Phoenix is making a dedicated shift to streetcar system, and calls out Baltimore, and others with no streetcar systems to
build do the same. At same time Phoenix snickers, "At least we aren't them!" Listen:
| SINCE 1948 ABSENCE ~ STREETCARS ARE BACK!!!! |
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| Arizona Republican Thursday, April 28th, 1927 Page11 |
Streetcar - South Central Extension/Downtown Hub [Opening 2023]
Streetcar - Northwest Extension [Opening 2024]
MAP - Valley Metro System - 5 and Under Fare Free
Footprint Center
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| Arizona Republican Wednesday, April 27th, 1927 Page16 |
"Then And Now: From Downtown's Mule-Drawn Trolley To Light Rail" - Downtown Phoenix DTPHX
TEMPE
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: STREETCARS
"Tempe Streetcar Receives First Brookville Liberty® NXT" - Railway Age
"Northwest Extension Phase II Route Flyover" - Valley Metro
"Valley Metro Tempe Streetcar Ribbon Cutting: 1st Ride" - GNAV TV (2022)
Rail maintenance Deputy Director Robert Rosenberg shares from streetcar operator perspective, then Mayor Woods shares pertinent
future, "Continue to be Innovative - the First" - more streetcar routes for prosperous economy and technology everywhere
in Tempe, and then Maricopa County.
"Tempe Streetcar Ribbon Cutting": May 20, 2022
Riding the Tempe Streetcar "Again" to Catch Valley Metro Light Rail Downtown - Dan Dan V-log 764.4 (August 2022)
Getting Arizona Involved in Neighborhoods (GAIN) 2022
"The streetcar mode was selected over the LRT mode due to its compatibility with the City of Tempe's downtown atmosphere,
smaller footprint, and its ability to run off-wire through its historic sections of the downtown area."
"In its first year, the Tempe Streetcar beat ridership expectations and is already on track for expansion.
Why it matters: The 3-mile streetcar route has provided a faster way to transport people through the busiest parts of Tempe,
and its early success has created a powerful argument for expansion into Mesa."
A light rail was already built and running, but streetcar in original form is more popular.
TUCSON
Sun Link Streetcar - Sun Tran
How to Ride Sun Link Streetcar
Full Ride (Both ways) of Sun LINK Streetcar
"Streetcars in Tuscon, Arizona: Beautiful Trams Aren't They?" (2020)
ARKANSAS
"You know, on a personal note, Little Rock has over 60 miles of bicycle pedestrian trails starting at the Clinton Library
and the centerpiece of it is the longest pedestrian bicycle bridge in the United States and, excuse me, but it is named the
Big Dam Bridge. It goes over a dam.
Mr. Blumenauer: And Congressman Snyder is shamelessly promoting it, that along with your streetcar. We appreciate
that. Thank you, Mr. Weaver."
Fort Smith Trolley Museum
Hawkins Rails: a web scrapbook featuring nearly 75 years of railroad photography
The Union Pacific "Big Boy" accelerates from Walnut Ridge and sanding the flues occurs just south of Knobel. Please
read before viewing, the informative comments.
LITTLE ROCK
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: STREETCARS
METRO Streetcar: Fare Free
Little Rock & North Little Rock Streetcar Map
Rock Region METRO: Little Rock Metropolitan
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: TRAINS & STREETCARS
CALIFORNIA
| No. 1001 ~ Circa 1981 |
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| San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) |
"Millions of people come from all over the world to visit San Francisco. And what is one of the first things they all
want to do? Joyride on public transportation. And it's no wonder. The city by the bay has some of the world's most historic
and unique transit systems."
"People who wouldn't ride a bus - will ride a streetcar".
- San Francisco Municipal Railway General Manager Michael T. Burns
CALIFORNIA PRIORITIZES RAIL THROUGH ADDING BILLIONS AND DELAYING ROAD PROJECTS
[Rail vehicles - streetcars and trains will diminish tired vehicle traffic, leaving cancelling expanded road projects.]
[Diminished vehicle traffic due to rail vehicles: streetcars and trains will then cancel those expanded road projects]
"California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Jan. 10 introduced his $291 billion 2024-25 state budget proposal, which includes an investment
of $19.6 billion in transportation funding and closes a projected $37.86 billion shortfall." ....
CALIFORNIA RAIL $19.6 BILLIONS INCLUDE:
* $7.7 billion for high-priority transit and rail infrastructure projects that will improve rail and transit
connectivity between state and local/regional services that are designed to reduce traffic congestion and greenhouse
gas production.
{Streetcars!}
* $4.2 billion Proposition 1A for the High-Speed Rail Authority to continue building the 119-mile Central Valley Segment from
Madera to just north of Bakersfield.
* $1.2 billion for projects that improve goods movement on rail and roadways at port terminals, including rail yard expansions,
new bridges, and zero-emission modernization projects.
* $350 million for grade separation projects that support critical safety improvements and expedite the movement
of traffic and rail by separating the vehicle roadway from the rail tracks."
BRAND NEW ~ HYDROGEN TRAINS!
"Altamont Corridor Express ACE: Things are Getting Better" - Trains Are Awesome (2023)
THE AMAZING CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR STORY-1940-1970 - Charles Smiley Presents
Passenger: "Hydrogen Finds its Place in California" Railway Age (June 05, 2024)
FRESNO
"Trolley-Streetcar On Van Ness" - Calisphere, University of California
Fresno Department of Transportation History
"A Streetcar Named Fresno Traction; the History of Streetcar Service in Fresno" - Gribblenation
GLENDORA
"A Look Back at The Pacific Electric Railway" - Glendora News
LOS ANGELES
YES. THEY ARE COMING BACK!!!!
THE ONLY ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSIT!
| LOS ANGELES STREETCAR REVIVAL!!!!: DTLA SYSTEM!!!! |
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| Illustration by Ben Tomimatsu |
The City of Los Angeles understands that in order to be a world class city, it direly needs to meet first its citizen's
needs, and then the world - with again, a Streetcar System. Los Angeles used to have over 1000 rail miles for Streetcar Routes.
Los Angeles is greatly rewarded with World Cup and Olympics coming....
"See what happens when downtown connects!"
"Car-Loving LA in Midst of Largest Rail Construction Program in US" - Los Angeles Business Journal (2021)
"Los Angeles's Bold Plans For a Car-Free 2028 Olympic Games" - ABC News Australia (2022)
L.A. Metro Rail - Light Rail / Train
"It's a Big Job" - Workforce Dedication and Recruiting Film - Los Angeles Railway (1947)
"Ride The Last Red Car Los Angeles" - April 1961 [This Streetcar Line, the first, was built in 1902.]
"Pacific Electric - the L.A. Red Car System" [Part 1]
"Pacific Electric - the L.A. Red Car System" [Part 2]
"Pacific Electric and Los Angeles Railway DVD number D-148 preview"
THE FIFA WORLD CUP 2026
The "Car-Free" Olympics
[Listen for the streetcar bell!]
Metro's Visionary Outcomes by 2028 [Olympics Motivated]
* 10-minute walk or roll to high-quality mobility options
* 15-minute maximum wait, any time of day
Los Angeles Streetcar: Back on Track Rally!
Los Angeles Streetcar "Back on Track!"
Environmental Benefits of Hosting the Olympic Games - International Olympic Committee
"New Details on LA Metro's K Line Northern Extension to Hollywood" (July 29, 2024)
MAP: 28 Light Rails by 2028 Initiative - Enviro Metro: &Los Angeles Coalition for Green Equitable & Healthy Transportation
Enviro Metro: &Los Angeles Coalition for Green Equitable & Healthy Transportation
"The One Long Wire Ruining Americas Most Important Train" - Half as Interesting (August 1, 2024)
LA28
"Los Angeles's bold plans for a car-free 2028 Olympic Games" - ABC News (Australia) (May 10, 2022)
"Los Angeles 2024 Candidate City Presentation" - IOC Media (July 11, 2017)
BUILDING ANEW - Los Angeles Streetcar, Incorporated
"The culture is changing. People are riding trains. If we don't do anything, we will be eaten alive by congestion."
- Phil Washington
"Los Angeles' Light Rail Extension Runs Parallel to Congested Freeways" - CBS This Morning (2016)
Some cussing. Narrator is angry at those who hate streetcars....
"Los Angeles: The Great American Transit Experiment" - Street Films
"Los Angeles Streetcars - The Final Years" [Read the notes]
"The Yellow Car and Los Angeles" - Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
"Angelenos are rightfully frustrated by being forced to buy cars and sit in traffic to get around, and
many feel like this situation was foisted on them without the consent of residents,” says Elkind.
'It's easy to blame car companies because they're the logical economic beneficiary of this car-oriented system. But the reality
is more complex, and if there's any conspiracy here, it's on the part of local officials who kept approving sprawling
subdivisions that have led to the present inefficient land use patterns.'"
Jobs arose around the Streetcar runs. Famous Red Cars "Big Red" ran in Los Angeles & suburbs.
"Street Names of Los Angeles" - Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM)
As aid to Seoul and Pusan, South Korea, type H-4 streetcars were sent from Los Angeles on ships. - Los Angeles Railway
Yellow Cars by Jim Walker - Arcadia Publishing Library Editions. ISBN 978-1531629410. (2007)
The Los Angeles Railway [Streetcar System]
The Los Angeles Metro Rail [Streetcars and Subway]
"A Clear Blue Vision: L.A. Light Rail and Twenty Five Years of the Blue Line" - Tropics of Meta
"Of Red Cars and Rabbits" - Otter Cartographer
"Why LA Destroyed Its World-Class Transit System" - Cheddar News
"Red Car Promotion for Los Angeles the Early days" - David's Video Edit
"Who Killed the Red Car?" - Lost LA" KCET (2022)
"Uncovering what Really Happened to the Los Angeles Streetcar System" - ABC7 (2021)
"AWAITING DESTRUCTION" - Pacific Electric Railway Redcars piled atop one another at junkyard on Terminal Island, California
1956 Published caption:
"Evolution of the Los Angeles Metro 1900-2028" - Metro Liner
"Metro A Line Cab View: Azusa ~ Long Beach - Flat Train
"2023 Update on LA Metro Projects" - Nandert (2023)
"In Depth: LA Metro - FOX 11 Los Angeles (2023)
"Overview of the LA Metro Purple Line (D) - RF Transit [Good for the pictures]
"California High Speed Rail San Diego to Los Angeles City Pair Investigation" - Lucid Stew (2023)
OCEANSIDE
"Embrace the Romance of Rail Travel": San Diego Trolley, with Sprinter and Coaster Trains
ORANGE COUNTY - SANTA ANA
"MADE TO MOVE" - Orange County Streetcar [System to Be]
"A NEW HORIZON OF MOBILITY" WILL BE REVEALED: 4.15 mile "OC Streetcar" makes its debut in 2024.
"OC Streetcar" - City of Santa Ana
"OC Streetcar: Future Anaheim-HB Line? Hazard Avenue Crossing" - Streetcar Enthusiast
| Rolling Library: Ride & Read |
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| Sacramento Regional Transit District |
SACRAMENTO
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: STREETCARS & LIGHTRAIL FARE FREE FOR K-12
Riverfront Streetcar
MAP: Light Rail Lines
Light Rail Schedule: Sacramento Regional Transit Schedule
"Sacramento's Light Rail Network Evolution" - Vanishing Underground
Ride Fare Free: Kindergarten through 12th Grade
SAN DIEGO
"Trolley With You" - We are MTNS - Metropolitan Transit System
"San Diego Is Getting New Trolley Cars, What Happens To The Old Ones?" Their State of the Art {over-computerized: 27 systems}
Streetcars = 3.6 Million] (2018)
Streetcar Connects U.S.A. with Mexico:
"They {San Diego} opened 'Tijuana Trolley' this week, a streetcar line that runs 27 blocks through downtown San Diego and
links the city with the Mexican border, 14 miles to the south. The system is the first street-level trolley line to
begin service in the United States since before World War II, and it is the nation's first new rail transit line of any type
since the initial leg of a high-speed, larger system opened in Atlanta two years ago."
Scroll down for complete article.
San Diego Streetcar History
"San Diego and the PCC Streetcar" - By P. Allen Copeland
The Silver Line (1981): Three meticulously restored vintage vehicles: PCC Streetcars 529 and 530 of the 1940s alternate with
the very first iconic red San Diego Trolley, the 1001 U2 .
"UC San Diego Blue Line Trolley Extension" - Rolling Birth November 21st, 2021
Special: San Diego Trolley 40TH Anniversary Music Video - Transitfan & Aviation & RAILFAN [2081 - 2021]
'40 Years of the San Diego Trolley / 40 Años del Trolley de San Diego' - Metropolitan Transit System
Free Transfers
MAP & Timetables
THE BLUE LINE CELEBRATION!:"New Trolley Extension Connects San Ysidro With La Jolla" - City Times Media (2021)
San Diego and Tijuana Named 'World Design Capital' {in for} 2024 - KPBS (2021)
"Elected officials Approved a $160 Billion Plan for Transit Expansion, Setting Sights on Making Public Transportation
Free Within 10 Years."
"SANDAG Plans New Transit Hub Get People to San Diego Airport Faster" - KFMB TV 8 San Diego (April 2022)
"Safe, and of course, on time!"
"Planning for {yet} a new trolley line, and express service on an existing one. Building a new U.S.-Mexico
border crossing. Analysis of a planned downtown mobility hub and airport connection Those are some of the plans called
for in the San Diego Association of Governments’ $1.3 billion annual draft budget."
"San Diego MTS Board Approves $448.2MM Operating Budget for FY25" - Railway Age (June 21, 2024)
Reporter Confesses having tremendous anxiety due to having/driving her car; "I can tell you, I had plans before to meet
some people {Little Italy}, but because I couldn't find parking, I've just gone home."
In San Diego, ancillary solar and wind-making energy not enough to combat motor vehicle greenhouse gas emissions. WIDENING
SIDEWALKS & STREETCARS ARE ANSWERS FOR SAN DIEGO: "San Diego has made enormous strides toward getting more of its electricity
from renewable sources such as wind and solar in recent years. But according to the city's latest inventory of greenhouse
gas emissions, that progress is being canceled out by the city's biggest source of pollution: cars and trucks.
The findings were buried in the appendix of a climate-monitoring report uploaded to the city's website in March. They underscore
the need to decarbonize San Diego's transportation system and build dense, walkable neighborhoods (like Grantville) where
more residents can get around without a car. The climate report found that emissions from the generation of electricity
fell by an impressive 27% from 2020 through 2021. This was attributed to an increase in renewable energy purchases by both
SDG&E and San Diego Community Power, a government-run nonprofit that began purchasing energy on behalf of homes and businesses
in 2021.
SAN FRANCISCO BAY/OAKLAND & SUBURBIA
"The Space Age Metro System - Bay Area Rapid Transit" (BART) - RM Transit (2022)
"Caltrain Baby Bullet: San Francisco to San Jose in 1 Hour - Trains Are Awesome (2023)
SAN FRANCISCO
| Tony Bennett on a Cable Car |
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| San Francisco September 21st, 1982 |
While artistic improvisation is well expected, what is depicted is a streetcar, not a cable car. A cable car can only work
with its cable connected in the middle of the two tracks, rotating underground. If this was done in Disney's time, the cable
car would of been shown correctly with different hi-jinks, or would of been called, "Streetcar Chaos" as San Francisco
has cable and streetcars.
| POLK & MASON STREET CABLE CAR |
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| THEN AND TODAY IN SAN FRANCISCO |
San Francisco Streetcars "How Transit Built San Francisco" - San Francisco Public Library
San Francisco Cable Cars
The 116-Year History of Streetcars on Market Street (2022) - SFMTA
HAPPY 149TH ANNIVERSARY SAN FRANCISCO CABLE CARS! - Main Street Railway
Market Street Railways
Watch San Francisco Cable and Streetcars travel Live!
Free with Donations Encouraged. Open Tuesdays through Saturdays from Noon, 12:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M. at 77 Steuart Street (between
Market & Mission Streets, across from the Ferry Building). Ride the F-line Streetcar there!
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| At a San Francisco Event! |
| STREETCAR RIDES WITH ME- IN SAN FRANCISCO!!!! |
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| CLICK MY PCC!!!! |
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| The San Francisco Ellis and O'Farrell Street Streetcar!!!! |
F Market & Wharves Streetcars
"San Francisco's Heritage Streetcar" (PCC) - Trains Are Awesome (2023)
San Francisco "F" Line - What to see - San Francisco Travel
San Francisco Central Subway - Light Rail - SFMTA [Opening October 2022]
"San Francisco & San Jose's Commuter Rail Network Evolution" - Vanishing Underground
"How San Francisco's Hills Saved its Streetcars" - Fog City History (2022)
"The Green New Deal for LA which focuses on clean energy, clean transportation options and the need to 'Grow the Grid'
for Downtown's electrical power, to the DTLA Mobility Study looking at the future of transportation investment in DTLA,
to the study of a Car-Free Broadway now underway – the electric streetcar is an important partner in helping
make these plans achieve these important goals! ... We are working hard to create a program to potentially accelerate funds
dedicated to the Streetcar in later years of Measure M on a faster time horizon." Los Angeles Streetcar - Down Town Los
Angeles (DTLA) 2040 Accomplishment Plan
SAN JOSE & SANTA CLARA COUNTY
"With the surge of interest in building a new light rail line in San Jose, a few rail enthusiasts remembered the vintage
cars that operated downtown; they hoped to find an old trolley car body that could be restored." - Transportation Research
Record 1361
Green Blue & Orange Light Rail Lines - Valley Transportation Authority
"Streetcars: San Jose and Los Gatos Interurban Railway Company" - Santa Cruz Trains
The Peninsular Railway Map (1915)
"Vintage Trolleys in Santa Clara County" - Transportation Research Record 1361
Trolley Barn - History of San Jose, California
"Altamont Corridor Express ACE: Things are Getting Better" - Trains Are Awesome (2023)
ORANGE COUNTY
Orange County Streetcar [Coming 2024]
OC Streetcar Santa Ana - Garden Grove/Harbor Transit Center [Ride in 2024]
METROLINK [Train Service for Southern California including Los Angeles]
LOSSAN Rail Corridor Agency: "Los" Angeles > San Diego > "San" Luis Obispo. Rail Corridor Agency (LOSSAN)
COLORADO
Colorado Freight and Passenger Rail Plan - Colorado State
"A Vision for Front Range Passenger Rail" - Southwest Chief & Front Range Passenger Rail Commission
Front Range Passenger Rail Map
DENVER
"Denver's Light Rail & Commuter Rail Network Evolution" - Vanishing Underground
Denver Colorado Trolley
Rail - Regional Transportation District (RTD)
"The Denver Trolley Review: Relive The Glory Days of the Streetcar" - Upon Arriving (2023)
FORT COLLINS
"Fort Collins Trolley" - Fort Collins History Connection
Fort Collins Trolley
Fort Collins Streetcar Ride - Fare Clink
Schedule [Historic-Type of Rides]
"Front Range Rail Project Gets A Rough $2B Price Tag As RTD Looks To Jump On Board" - Colorado Public Radio
"Fort_Collins Municipal_Railway" - Wikipedia
CONNECTICUT
The Shore Line Trolley Museum - Operated by the Branford Electric Railway Association [East Haven, CT]
ANNAPOLIS
Connecticut Trolley Museum - East Windsor
"Is Connecticut Ready for a Streetcar Revival?" - National Public Radio (NPR)
"Vintage Trolley Cars on Full Display in Connecticut" - FOX TV 61 (April 18, 2023)
HARTFORD
"The Death and Life of the Hartford Streetcar" - Scholars Collaborative
Bring Back Hartford Streetcar - FB Group
NEW HAVEN
"Mack Trucks' Mysterious New Haven Railbus: A Transit Enigma!" - Jeffrey Ornstein (June 24, 2024)
NORWICH
Norwich Streetcar Paintings and Photographs
DELAWARE
"An Action Plan for the Central Delaware: Obj. 6: Streetcar Transit" - University of Pennsylvania
Delaware Counties of Bucks and Chester, Pennsylvania Counties of Montgomery and Philadelphia, and New Jersey Counties of Burlington,
Camden, Gloucester, and Mercer
From the Delaware Public Archives: The Delaware City streetcar - Delaware Business Now
"The Trolley Square Wilmington Streetcar System, and the Delaware Coach Company" - Hagely Library and Museum
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - WASHINGTON
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT ABOVE GROUND
STREETCAR-SUBWAYS:
"The J.E. Greiner Company's system would have been top-notch"
| WHAT COULD OF BEEN IN 1944: D.C.STREETCAR-SUBWAYS |
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| J.E. GREINER COMPANY REPORT: TO BE LARGEST SYSTEM IN US |
"A Streetcar City: The Trolley and Daily Life" - Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History
Alexander Augusta & Charles Sumner: How Streetcars came about to be desegregated in Washington, D.C. in 1865.
| HATTIE SHEEGAN, AS HAPPY & PROUD AS CAN BE |
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| STREETCAR OPERATOR IN WASHINGTON D.C. (1943) |
"The DC Women Streetcar Operators of World War II" - Washington Area Spark (March 2013)
D.C. Example: "Implementing Streetcars Demands Consideration of the Way Traffic Works" - The Transport Politic (December 2009)
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: STREETCARS
"Guide to the DC Streetcar" - Washington D.C. Visitors and Tourism
This streetcar, with District of Columbia proposed entire system, needs dedicated lanes in order to truly work, not with cars,
but replace automobiles. People want to move faster than automobiles, and streetcars can move Very fast.
Intended for communities in DC that are not adequately served by the existing Metro infrastructure, the streetcars
will help to connect emerging neighborhoods, and allow for a more efficient, effective, and economical
alternative to the maze of often confusing and unreliable bus routes running through the city.
Not "Dedicated" Streetcar Lanes defeats entire purpose of being a fast, on-time, massive people mover.
"Refurbishing Tracks: "Streetcar Tracks on DC Streets Restored" -- Evoking a Bygone Era of Urban Transit" (June 1, 2012)
"Could the DC Metro get a Loop Line?" - Trains Are Awesome (2024)
"The Rhode Island Trolley Car Line" - Prince Georges' Historical Society
"Streetcars Without Dedicated Lanes Tend to Be on the Slow Side. But Beating This Much-Maligned Public Transportation
Mode on Foot Wasn't as Easy as it Looks."
"District of Columbia Streetcar Wants Your Family to Ride with Us"
District of Columbia Streetcar
District of Columbia City Circulator
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT
"D.C. Votes to Eliminate Metrobus Fares in Movement Toward Free Transit" - The Washington Post (December 6th, 2022)
Cities are going, "Fare Free," as well as Washington D.C. This piece is focused on busses only, which again proves that people
continue to look down upon busses, though massive traffic congestion. This piece also did not report how much money is spent
on collecting, counting money, fare boxes, repairs... Despite this piece, some congestion is removed - "Demand Response Vehicles"
(Taxi, Lyft, Uber....), which, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, "Are the least efficient because they need to use
fuel just to get to the passenger."
Cities that have and introduce Streetcars have a different outcome than with busses. People do leave their cars behind,
and brick and mortar economy comes roaring back. Snobs? Yes. But busses pollute, especially their tires with PAHS and PPDS,
killing and producing all animals with the ability to die from cancers. So snobbery to busses is YES to Streetcars, "The
Only True Zero Carbon Emissions."
"How Washington District of Columbia Fixed Their Metro's Biggest Problem" - The Flying Moose (April 2024)
"So, the US Actually *Can* Design Great Transit | Washington Metro" - RM Transit (2022)
FLORIDA
| Tampa Historic Streetcar |
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| TECO STREETCAR - Hillsborough Transit Authority 2022 |
Tampa and State of Florida Unite - Streetcar crowned, "MASS TRANSIT SYSTEM" "State Pitching in $67 million to Update Tampa
Streetcar" - Fox TV 13 Tampa Bay (2020)
"Flagler's Train: The Florida Keys Over-Sea Railroad" | - South Florida PBS [Documentary]
Brightline Trains
"Brightline Aventura Station FULL TOUR & FIRST RIDE!" - Joel Franco (2022) [Only 17:55 minutes Aventura -- Miami]
"Everything About Brightline Explained in 1 Hour" (Animated) - Banks Rail (2023) [Narrated/Commentary]
HOMESTEAD
Rail route was built 1926 by Seaboard Air Line to bring passenger service, and tourists to Homestead, Florida
JACKSONVILLE
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| PINE STREET IN 1910 ~ TODAY MAIN STREET, JACKSONVILLE |
"Ruins of Jacksonville: The Streetcar System" - Metro Jacksonville (2009)
"Lost Jacksonville: Streetcars" - The Jaxson (2018)
"Streetcars" - "Jacksonville Historical Society
ADVOCACY FOR JACKSONVILLE STREETCARS:
"When we predict that Jacksonville will become the metropolis of the South, it is made upon the favorable surrounding conditions,
based upon the history of the past with the corroborating facts of the present." - 1905 Jacksonville City Directory, Publisher's
Remarks ....
"A drive down the streets of the urban core reveals that most of the city's historic walkable commercial districts have a
direct connection with the now defunct streetcar system. This should help validate the nationwide push to invest in streetcar
networks to serve as a catalyst for infill economic development.
In a quest to decide what Jacksonville wants to be, it may be time for this city to roll back the clock and restore what was
once one of the South's most impressive mass transit systems." - Ennis Davis
PCT BUS -VERSUS- JACKSONVILLE STREETCAR
DIRECT COSTS: Acquiring and operating PCT busses. Buses must have similar capacity and frequency to the streetcars.
Tampa, Florida & Little Rock, Arkansas Streetcar Birney Example: Streetcar capacity carries 90 passengers. PCT bus capacity
is 30 passengers. 7 Streetcars serving Riverside equals 21 busses.
"Imagine the crowds that pack Everbank Field, the baseball grounds, arena, Landing, Art Walk, Riverwalk, or the TU Center,
and on a line that extends from the Sports District to Park and King in Riverside, 7 streetcars doing the work of 21 buses.
If JTA goes ahead with hybrid engines on the PCT'S the sticker price is a tad over $625,000 dollars a copy. A brand new heritage
Birney Streetcar will run about $1,200,000 each. So for 21 PCT buses? CHA CHING! $13,125,000 dollars worth of "savings."
The 7 streetcars? $8,400,000 pretty close to half as much. Saving: $4,725,000."
OPPORTUNITY COSTS
Additionally saving on "Onboard Personnel" labor: bus drivers [Two thirds of total cost?] Break down cost for 21 drivers,
+ two shifts (minimum) and you'll get 42 bus drivers (not counting substitute drivers). Streetcar Motormen/women need is 14.
"BIG SAVINGS JACKSONVILLE...HUGE. Keep on trackin' Juice fans."
"Guesstimating that about one third of JTA'S budget is for mass transit, with 180 vehicles, one can assume that the average
cost of operating a {a single} JTA bus is $185,000 dollars per year. This was calculated dividing JTA'S budget into
thirds and dividing by the number of buses operated. Imagine blowing $3,885,000 annually for a fake {streetcar}. So let's
say the cursed PCT'S run to the FTA maximum of 12 years {lifespan}, we'd drop $46,620,000 for a plastic "imitation trolley."
Oh the savings just keep mounting. Meanwhile in Tampa, the TECO streetcar line operates 11 streetcars cars for 2,600,000 a
year or about $236,000 annually per car. It would take 33 faux trolley buses to equal the same carrying capacity. In the same
12 year period one could expect JTA would spend $18,000,000 for real streetcars. Fleet Savings? $28,620,000 (It's that flushing
sound a bus makes)
LACK OF PROBATIVE VALUE
The cost of money rises exponentially due to inflation with procrastination. The other opportunity cost would be the delay
of benefits to the city that would come from having a streetcar. I will not attempt to quantify them in this posting, but
it is something of which to be aware.
Combining the direct and opportunity costs leads to a cost of the twelve year PCT operation of over $48,645,000 million.
The Streetcar will produce two main types of benefits — ridership benefits and economic development benefits. The PCT
will not. Ridership on the PCT bus will be lower than it would be on a streetcar. Route legibility of a bus route is worse
than a streetcar. Unlike a bus, someone unfamiliar with a streetcar route can see the tracks and know where the line goes.
People like to know where they are going and national statistical data on streetcar verses bus ridership bear this out.
Additionally, PCT busses cannot approach streetcar performance - smooth rides! "Mode-neutrality presumes that a transit rider
will exhibit no preference for rail over buses. This is not the case. Many visitors to New York or Chicago will take the
subway or the 'EL,' but will not ride a bus to get around."
"Streetcars were a common sight in U.S. cities at the beginning of the 20th century, but by the 1960s, they had been
wiped out, usually replaced by buses deemed cheaper to operate and more comfortable. More than a half-century after streetcars
were abandoned and burned, several U.S. cities are working to revive them. Why? Because of their uncanny ability to rapidly
transform once-decrepit neighborhoods into economic powerhouses by attracting billions of dollars of Transit Oriented Development
(TOD) within walking distance of their routes."
MIAMI
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: STREETCARS
Metromover Miami: Fare Free
"Tri-Rail Sets DTML Schedule - Railway Age (January 2024)
TAMPA
"Yesterday, I had three trips of people standing. And on weekends, they can get so busy - we leave people behind at stations."
- Connie Cosme, a Veteran Streetcar Senior Motorman
Now, city boosters are envisioning the streetcar as a more serious transit option that will travel deeper into downtown
and beyond, with faster, modernized cars and room for more riders. 'Over the next 20 years we’re going to
have 700,000 new residents. That’s almost the populations of Orlando and Miami combined. It makes
more sense to have a transit or a walk-bike or an active transportation-based system. The streetcar is a great
start to that,' - Vik Bhide, Tampa mobility department director
Tampa's original streetcar helped build the city around it."
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: STREETCARS
"Envision 2030: The Future of Transit in Tampa Bay" - Tampa Bay Area Regional Transit Authority (TBARTA)
Tampa currently has 3 streetcar routes, with more on the way! Can I convey enough, "Fare Free!"
"A common sight in downtown Tampa with a history in the city that dates back to 1885. Over the last 20 years, it's become
more popular as people move downtown."
"TECO Streetcar Line Hits Highest Ridership Ever!" The TECO Line Streetcar carried a record 107,956 trips in March 2022
TECO Streetcar in Tampa, Florida 2022 - I'm a Tram
TECO Line Streetcar: Fare Free!
InVision: Tampa Streetcar - Tampa Bay Area Regional Transit Authority (TBARTA)
InVision Streetcars: Fare Free
List of Florida Street Railroads - Wikipedia
GEORGIA
Outrage over MARTA Taking Away Light-Rail Plan for Buses (BRT) - YES, IT DOES MAKE A SEGREGATIONIST, CLASSIST, AND RACIST
DIFFERENCE - Fox TV 5 Atlanta
"Historic Streetcar Systems in Georgia"
ATLANTA
Atlanta Streetcar East Extension (Visual Tour)
"So are we gonna plan for future residential/commercial/office density now, or are we gonna complain and dick around
for another 10 years, and then complain some more with still no results.
This transit project has been planned for a long time, it's not a new concept. The city, MARTA, et al are finally (appearing
to) move forward on a transit project and people are poo-pooing it-- I'm really shocked at the blow-back on this, particularly
from a group of folks that claim to be urbanists. ..."
Atlanta Streetcar PSA
Streetcar East Extension Update - MARTA (2021)
"Atlanta's MARTA Rail Network Evolution" - Vanishing Underground
"The Relationship Between Transit Rich "Neighborhoods and Transit Ridership: Evidence From the Decentralization of Poverty"
- Applied Geography (2017)
SAVANNAH
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: STREETCARS
Savannah, Georgia - "Connect the Dot!"
HAWAII
| WAIKIKI HAWAII 1930 STREETCAR |
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| "PARK YOUR AUTO SAFELY AT HOME. USE THE STREETCAR SERVICE |
Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation (HART): The Elevated Train System
Honolulu Rail Transit [First Phase Opening December 2022]
"How Rail Got to $12.45 Billion and 11 Years Late: We Sorted Through More than a Decade of Cost Overruns, Audits and Reports
to Explain How the Price Soared and Why Completion Fell Behind Schedule." - Hawaii Business Magazine (2021)
"Images of Old Hawaii" - Honolulu Rapid Transit (HRT): Pictures
Honolulu Rail Transit Project: History, Streetcars Trolleybuses, Light Rail, and Honolulu Light Metro
[Great visual of various streetcar systems in U.S. in 2009. Gets streetcar definition wrong. Portland are Streetcars (even
says so on side). Streetcars pick up at ground level, as evidence with wheelchair.]
O'ahu in 1934: Honolulu's Vanishing Street Car Tracks - Honolulu Magazine (2019)
IDAHO
"It is essential that we seek to expand our public transportation as soon as possible to increase the quality of life
for area residents." - Resident of South Nampa
| DOWNTOWN BOISE IN 1890's |
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| Courtesy Boise State University |
"Residents of Ada and Canyon Counties spend $1.5 billion on fuel and {automobile} repairs but only $15 million on
public transportation operations. .... Transit investments can help minimize those costs, which puts more money into
people's pockets to spend as they choose. But to do so, we need to expand transit service. We simply cannot expect to
have anything like $1.5 billion dollars' worth of mobility for $15 million."
"Light rail is essential to supporting further growth in Boise." - Resident of Central Boise
Idaho Rail: HELP US BRING & BUILD MORE TRAINS AND STREETCARS!!!! FIND OUT HERE!!!! HELP!!!!
Valley Region Transit Proposal [Including Rail, but not enough]
ILLINOIS
MetroLink Light Rail / Trains - Serving Missouri & Illinois [Two Routes: Red & Blue Lines]
CHICAGO
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: STREETCARS, TRAINS, & SUBWAY
Ride Free Programs:
Qualifying Seniors and Customers With Disabilities enrolled in the Illinois Department on Aging Circuit Breaker Program and
have a valid, "Regional Transportation Authority Circuit Ride Free Permit".
Active duty military personnel in full uniform with US
Armed Forces ID, as well as qualifying disabled military veterans with a "CTA Military Service Pass" ride free on CTA trains
and buses.
Children 6 and Under: Fare Free
"Meeting The Moment" - Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)
Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)
"L" System MAP
CTA & METRA TRAINS [Northeastern Illinois Region]
MAP - RTA System
Red Line Extension - Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)
"CTA Named Top Large U.S. Transit Agency and President Carter Named Top Transit Executive" - Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)
(2021)
Night Owl Service
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| CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY BAND SIGNATURES |
The Most Famous Elevated Metro System: The Chicago "L" - RM Transit
"Chicago's FORGOTTEN "L" Lines: The History of Chicago Elevated Trains" - IT'S HISTORY
"Chicago Doesn't Own Its Own Streets" Climate Town (2023) [Since 2008]
"The Lost Streetcars of Chicago: Finding the Last Green Hornet Tracks" - It's History (2022)
"Chicago Streetcar & Elevated Lines - 1952 to 1956" - GPS Video
Illinois Railway Museum
Chicago Streetcars & Trolleybuses - The Trolley Dodger
Chicago: "Transforming Urban Areas": 13th National Light Rail & Streetcar Conference - November 15th 17th, 2015
"Transport Chicago 32nd Annual Conference" - June 9, 2017
"A Long Time Gone" - The Trolley Dodger(June 23, 2018)
Dreaming of Streetcars
"Chicago is left with these massive transit deserts that force people to drive, all while limiting economic activity,
ad perpetuating inequality. But none of this is a secret. the city recognized that this would be a problem back in 1923,
and they tried to build a north-south rapid transit routes three separate times then. But clearly it has not worked out.
[Shares why the busses failed. Sound familiar?] Solution: Add larger Circle line Loop! NOT! Still about Streetcars!
Makes Case for Streetcar return in Chicago ("L" never meant to serve neighborhoods) "Buses are just a social
service, that we are going to hand out"
"Krause's non-profit Chicago Streetcar Renaissance proposes a network of six routes, only going where the ridership is very
high along the entire route – essentially upgrading the busiest bus corridors in the city, where streetcar operation
can be demonstrated to be faster and more cost-effective. The plan links major destinations for the first time by transit
and makes vital last-mile connections between commuter rail stations and the central business district (CBD). Rather than
going where there’s leftover road space, the Chicago streetcar would go where it does the most good: where demand is
highest and where the congestion is worst."
"Checkerboard City: Streetcar Desire" - New City (May 15, 2012)
"Streetcar Desire: John Krause wants Trams on Clark Street" - Grid Chicago (2012)
Chicago Streetcar Renaissance - John Krause (2013)
"Redefine the Drive" - Lake Shore Drive Pictorial May 29 2014 [Click off the "X"]
Superloop Rapid Streetcar - John Krause
"A Call for Local Architects to 'Redefine the Drive' in Chicago" - Planetizen (July 10, 2014)
"Architect Urges Big-Picture, Design Thinking For North Lake Shore Drive" - Steven Vance Street Blog Chicago (July 7, 2014)
If ONLY Chicago kept their streetcar system - they would be having a longer than 120th Anniversary....
LEBANON
Lebanon, Illinois: "Streetcar Restoration" - TV 2 St. Louis November 3, 2017)
ROCKFORD
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| THE ROCKFORD STREETCAR MAP [Dual use] |
Hicks Locomotive & {Street} Car Works: News and Views of Progress at the Illinois Railway Museum
"Rockford Heritage Trolley: A Long Time Gone" (2018)
INDIANA
TRANSIT SYSTEMS IN INDIANA
The Hoosier Heartland Trolley Company is using a grant from Indiana Landmarks and the Central Indiana Community Foundation
to restore Streetcar No. 153, the last surviving streetcar from the Indianapolis Railways electric streetcar system.
Trolley Collection: Indiana Interurbans, Streetcars, Electric Locomotives & Mule Cars - The Hoosier Heartland Trolley Company
Indianapolis Streetcar Strike of 1913 - Wikipedia
"Streetcar on Broad Ripple Avenue" - Indiana Historical Society
Streetcars and Barns - Knox County Public Library
IOWA
BOONE
The Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad & Museum
COUNCIL BLUFFS
"Streetcar" - Council Bluffs Public Library Special Collections
DES MOINES
"Streetcars, Trolleys, Curbliners, and Buses in Des Moines" - Des Moines Public Library
IOWA CITY
KANSAS
"East-West Kansas City Streetcar Study Releases Proposed Route, Stops in Metro" - WDAF TV 4 Kansas City (November 9, 2023)
Features Kansas Cities - Train Stations
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: STREETCARS
KENTUCKY
LOUISVILLE
"When people look at my maps, the most common reaction is, 'I had no idea this even existed,' quickly followed by 'why'd
we get rid of it?'...
You can look at your neighborhood today, let's say Crescent Hill, and imagine what it must have been like to ride a streetcar
to downtown. It's very relaxing to look at history, that doesn't feel like a piece of history." - Jake Berman
"Oct. 30, 1870: Protest of Racist Policies on Streetcars in Louisville" - Zinn Education Project
LOUISIANA
| CORBIE & BRIAN MARRIAGE CEREMONY |
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| BRIAN, CORBIE, & WEDDING PARTY ON THE SAINT CHARLES STREETCAR (2015) - Andrea Mabry Photography |
NEW ORLEANS
| SERVING THE FINEST ADDRESSES - WITH GREEN GRASS |
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| THE SAINT CHARLES STREET STREETCAR Photograph - Rebecca Todd |
The Saint Charles Line is the continuously operated street railway line not just in the United States, but in the world. Birthed
in 1835, a The Carrollton Line of the N.O. & Carrollton Railroad was powered by steam engine, horse, and mule. In 1893
electrification came about [Leo Daft] and has streetcars original to this route that are well over 100 years old in use today.
There are areas of the St. Charles route that is grass covered around the rails.
New Orleans is building its streetcar system on the United States based upon longest continuously running streetcar line,
The Saint Charles. New Orleans Streetcar System is currently at 5 routes.
THE NEW ORLEANS STREETCAR SYSTEM: The Saint Charles Streetcar Line ~ The Canal Street Line ~ The Riverfront Line ~ Loyola/UPT
Line ~ Rampart/Saint Claude Streetcar Line
"Streetcar" - New Orleans Documentary About the Streetcar Workers, Patrons, and How the 100+ Year Old Cars are Maintained
(2010)
"How to Ride New Orleans Streetcars" (Including The St. Charles]
The New Orleans St. Charles Streetcar Line - Luke Starkenburg
"A St. Charles Streetcar Ride Through New Orleans" - Go NOLA
New Orleans Streetcar System
New Orleans Streetcars - "How to Ride the Trolleys" - Walking Tour
"1929 New Orleans Streetcar Strike"
The New Orleans St. Charles Streetcar Wedding (2015)
NEW ORLEANS STREETCARS: "A unique and fun way to see the city" - New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS STREETCAR ITINERARY BY ROUTE
HOW TO GET AROUND NEW ORLEANS WITHOUT A CAR: "Explore all corners of New Orleans no driver's license required!" - New Orleans
Naturally N'awlins: Driving a New Orleans Streetcar" - WWL TV 4 (July 5, 2017)
"New Orleans Canal Street Streetcar" - Luke Starkenburg (January 2019)
The Carrollton Streetcar Barn in New Orleans, LA - The Lathan Company (2021)
ST. CHARLES STREETCAR LINE: "Will we ever have wheelchair access on the city's busiest transit line?"
Most streetcars now have wheelchair lifts - pull-out planks.
"Transit Accessibility" - New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (NORTA)
The bill to become law, prosecutes Perley Thomas' streetcar design use without permission. The abuser must pay a $5 thousand
dollar fine.
SHREVEPORT
"Streetcars in Shreveport, Louisiana" Twin Blends: Northwest Louisiana History Hunters (October 2020)[Long Opening]
MAINE
KENNEBUNKPORT
Seashore Trolley Museum
"A Seat for Everyone: Public Transportation Weaving the Fabric of Society" - History in Motion | Seashore Trolley Museum
MARYLAND
It was simple - even of ease, to physically move about Baltimore city - on streetcars:
"Segregationist values, notions that blacks should be separated and subordinate, prevailed throughout the country in these
turn-of-the-century years, and Baltimore whites deemed the emerging black community of Old West Baltimore a tolerable, even
useful city neighborhood. Residents were close enough to be in the employ of affluent whites who still resided downtown, in
Bolton Hill, or near Harlem Square, and a mere street car ride from the more spacious northern sections."
"Mural in Catonsville Honors One of the First Black Men to Drive Streetcars in Maryland" - WMAR TV 2 (2023)
"Retro: Christmas Gardens With Their Whistling Trains and Snowy Landscapes are an Essential Part of Baltimore" - The Baltimore
Sun (December 2023)
WANT INTERNATIONAL EVENTS? REQUIREMENT: STREETCARS
Baltimore has for decades has vied for large events. Baltimore used to vie, and have political party conventions. Baltimore,
with Washington D.C. has vied many times now for Summer Olympics, to no avail. Los Angeles is a multi-time Olympic City.
Los Angeles understands that in order to be a world class city, it direly needs a streetcar system to add to their subway
system; and they are working diligently to make it reality for 2028. In order for Baltimore to reap billions, yes Billons
that Portland, Kansas City, and Tampa Bay are pouring in by brick and mortar, Baltimore must go Streetcar full throttle.
All neighborhoods need the economic and social stabilization brick and mortar businesses streetcars create. And then, vie
for The Olympics.
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| SUBWAY & LIGHT RAIL ROUTES ON MAP |
MAP Maryland Operating Rail Systems [Currently used rail routes]
Maryland Transportation Administration in 2017, for, "Baltimore Link" destroys all original streetcar routes - except
one:
"The Crosstown," known as the "S" ~ Number 22.
Baltimore's Pennsylvania Station
Dreaming of Streetcars
Re-established train routes from tens of routes that connected the entire State of Maryland and Beyond will again offer amazing
quality of life, and massive reduction of poverty. Throughout the entire United States, train routes used to stop in every
little town, just like depicted in television hit, "Petticoat Junction." Today, routes like these continue to run
in Europe, using their genius timetable methods in tradition to have the shortest transfer wait time, hence the best to keep
trains full.
Kansas City has already extended mentioned line, built, and opened other streetcar routes.
Back-Tracking: Streetcar Routes of the Baltimore Transit Company - Adam Paul (2023) [Proceeds to Baltimore Streetcar Museum]
"When Baltimore's Streetcars Stopped Running" - Baltimore Sun (June 24th, 2024)
"I support bringing streetcars back to Baltimore." - Klaus Philipsen, FAIA
| BEDFORD SQUARE WAIT STATION IN GUILFORD |
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| UNITED RAILWAY & ELECTRIC COMPANY ~ ILLUSTRATED BY WILLEM WIRTZ April 1926 |
"The station was an important component of the Olmsted plan for St. Paul Street and the Roland Park Company's planned transit
link to downtown Baltimore. Commuting would be a hallmark of the suburban lifestyle being created in the Roland Park-Guilford
District. As was the experience in Roland Park, the streetcar was considered the most reliable way of getting downtown
and back in spite of the increasing popularity of the automobile.
Initially, a railroad along Charles Street, known as the 'Charles Street Line,' began operation in 1862. The No. 11 streetcar
replaced that operation. It is that line that was to be extended into Guilford. In order to assure that the trolleys would
be compatible with the aesthetic environment of Guilford a unique ...
At a time when automobiles were overtaking the streetcar, the Bedford Square waiting station was promoted as a 'Kiss and
Ride' station where husbands could be dropped off by their wives in the family car and then could take either the No.
11 or No. 1 streetcar to work downtown, thus avoiding downtown parking hassles."
Baltimore Streetcar Museum
No. 1063 "Baltimore" San Francisco PCC Car - Historic Streetcars in San Francisco - Market Street Railway
Baltimore Transit Company "Brill Liner" Streetcar - J.G. Brill Company of Philadelphia
Baltimore & Ohio: Pictures - The B & O Modeler
"Baltimore Trailer Streetcars" - MTA
Baltimore National Streetcar Shop - Streetcar Links
Baltimore Streetcar Routes - 1945
Baltimore Streetcar: A 3D animation on historic Charles Street
"Baltimore Strreetcars: Christmas in July - The Trolley Dodger [Picture 1 and then scroll down for more in Baltimore]
The Baltimore light rail was built for commuters into Baltimore City and a way to go to Thurgood Marshall BWI Airport. It
is meant for suburbanites to travel to work, to airport, and sports and other entertainment events. The stops are near few
residential homes, and therefore promotes driving to the stops, with widespread parking areas. Most residents of Baltimore
City do not ride this limited-stop route as not only do they not live anywhere near the few stops, but due to the limited
placement of stops in the first place. The buses do not meet the light-rail and vice-versa, so patience of at least an hour
is necessary. Bring necessary weather-condition need for optimum comfort in waiting.
"30 years ago today, April 2, 1992, Baltimore's Light Rail system began operation. It was also the first-ever opening day
of Oriole Park at Camden Yards" - MTA Facebook (2022)
National Capital Trolley Museum - Colesville, Maryland
Station Development Conference - Build America Center - Innovative Financing and Delivery of Transportation Infrastructure
- University of Maryland (2016)
$$$$ CREATION Power of Money - Taxes: "As of April 2016, more than $1.7B in development projects completed, in progress
or publicly announced since voters approved the streetcar in December 2012" Since 2016, Kansas City has added several
more routes, and has a "Smart" system.
"Connecting Bethesda over to New Carrollton.
Taking a swing at congestion and pollution.
It can't come soon enough this light rail train."
"Maryland Purple Line Bethesda Shaft Explosion" (2019)
Light Rail 16 Mile Purple Line [Coming 2027 (25 years to build)] - Maryland Transit Administration (MTA
BATA Baltimore Area Transit Association, founded by a great rail advocate, George Tyson.
"Tyson, George: "What Should Be Done With the Baltimore & Annapolis Railroad Right of Way?" (1976)
RETURN THE NORTHERN CENTRAL
BALTIMORE ~~~~ YORK ~~~~ HARRISBURG ~~~~ SUNBURY TRAIN SERVICE
EXTENDING TO NEW YORK STATIONS INCLUDING CORNING, ITHACA, & SYRACUSE. TRAVELS TO WASHINGTON D.C. TOO.)
Originally 380 Miles: From Baltimore to Sunbury, Pennsylvania
Northern Central Railway - of York [Part of entire Northern Central Railroad]
| NORTRHERN CENTRAL RAILWAY OF YORK |
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| CURRENT RAIL SERVICE NEW FREEDOM-NewFreedom.jpe |
"Northern Central Railroad: Harrisburg To Baltimore Question" - Train Orders
Baltimore - Harrisburg Train Service - Amtrak Discussion Board
"'Lessons Learned' New Maryland Rail Car Factory Could Offer Struggling Metro Some Relief: Hitachi Rail Unveils New $70M Hagerstown
Factory to Build as Many as 800 New 8000-Series Railcars." - WUSA TV 9 (2022)
"Hitachi Rail Factory "on Track" in Hagerstown" - DC News Now (2023)
Inspirations for Baltimore
Australia "How This Country Might Have the Solution to Suburban Transit" ELECTRIC TRAINS - RM Transit (2022)
"Valencia's Metrovalencia" - RM Transit (2022)
Valencia, Spain: "Density Matters, So Let's Make Every City a 5-Minute City (Not 15) - City Nerd (2023)
MASSACHUSETTS
"The Trolley Song" in Boston Trolleys! - Beantown Swing Orchestra
13 Train Routes - Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
MAP OF TRAIN ROUTES
BOSTON
"Boston's Commuter Rail Network Evolution" - Vanishing Underground
Trains & Streetcars [Train = Purple Streetcar = Other Colors]
THE GREEN LINE FINALLY OPENS!!!! "The Big Dig Transformed Boston,; So Why do the Controversies Define the Project?" - GBH
News (November 15, 2023)
FRANKLIN TOWN
Government Nickeled Streetcars to Death: "The demise of the whole remarkable system was a haphazard affair. Economically healthy
through the end of World War I, roaring inflation and regulatory obligations to stick with fares agreed years earlier –
typically a nickel for a ride – were part of the problem."
LOWELL
"The Trolleys" - Lowell National State Park
Lowell National Streetcar Museum
MICHIGAN
DETROIT
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: STREETCARS
The Q Line: Fare Free!
Q Line Map
"Streetcars Make Return to Motor City" - Railway Age (May 15, 2017)
"Detroit Orders New Streetcars from Brookville" - Railway Age (2015)
DSR Streetcar Memories [Pictures]
GRAND RAPIDS
| TROLLEY PARADE!!!! |
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| GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN |
History of Grand Rapids Streetcars
"Silver Line" - The Rapid
MINNESOTA
DULUTH
Mary Anderson: Inventor of windshield wiper | Catherine Gibbon....:
MINNEAPOLIS
"8mm Streetcar" - Minneapolis
Metro Green Light Rail Line
Metro Blue Light Rail Line
Northstar - Commuter Rail
Northstar Link - Commuter Rail
Como-Harriet Streetcar Line
Riverview Corridor Modern Streetcar Project - PURPOSE AND NEED: CONNECT NEIGHBORHOODS & EQUITY
The Feasibility of a Single-Track Vintage Trolley in the Midtown Greenway" - Midtown Greenway Coalition
"Minnesota Streetcar" - Minnesota Streetcar Museum
"Streetcars in St. Paul and Minneapolis" - Minnesota Historical Society
WEBINAR: "What the Blue Line Extension Means For Downtown Businesses" (2021)
SAINT PAUL ~ RAMSEY COUNTY
"The Modern Streetcar: Connecting More People to More Places" - Ramsey County (2022)
"What is the Riverview Corridor Modern Streetcar project?" [2017, but finally being planned.]
MISSISSIPPI
Streetcar - Preservation - Mississippi
GULFPORT
"Traveling By Trolley in Mississippi" - Historical Society of Gulfport | Gulfport Museum of History
JACKSON
Jackson Railway and Light Streetcar Map - Preservation in Mississippi (1912)
MERIDIAN
History of Major transportation Systems In Mississippi - Chicago Fans
VICKSBURG
"The home, which has fallen victim to history and historic floods over the last 50 years is no longer used, but the streetcar
itself, amazingly preserved from having had the elevated home built around it, will have a future, even if it is an
uncertain future."
"Rare Electric Streetcar from 1900s Removed from Inside Mississippi House" - Magnolia State Live (2020)
MISSOURI
"Metro Transit Awarded $196.2 Million Federal Grant for New MetroLink Train Cars" - Metro Saint Louis (May 2023)
KANSAS CITY
| ART IN THE LOOP |
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| KANSAS CITY ART IN THE LOOP |
"Kansas City in One Day" (2015) [Pre-Streetcar Revival]
"The Perfect Way to Explore Modern Kansas City? A Streetcar, Believe It or Not: The Contemporary Trolley, introduced in 2016,
Takes Visitors to an Arts District, an Entertainment District and a Happy State of Mind" - The New York Times (2018)
"As a supporter and user of public transit in Kansas City, I felt compelled to create an experiential song about an imaginary
rider who would use the streetcar to get to his various destinations." - Kemet Coleman
"Get Out: The Streetcar Song" - Kemet the Phantom with The Pharaohs
"It's just $1.50, after all, right? Well, not to a single parent of two who relies on bus travel to get their kids to
and from school and themselves to and from work. To them, that's almost $2,100 a year. Every year. Money that can now be used
for better food, or a second pair of shoes, medicine, or any number of things that put money right back into the KC economy."
Kansas City Streetcar System Map - Circa 1912
Cable car & Streetcar Routes adorn by Art ~ Like Shelters ready for new passengers
"How Will the Streetcar Extension Impact Midtown Housing?"
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: STREETCARS
On May 6, 2016, Kansas City celebrated the return of streetcar service after a nearly 50 years absence; the last ride on June
22nd, 1957.
Kansas City averages on weekdays 5,000 riders a day and weekends 10,000 a day on its first 2.2 mile line. First year May
2016-April 2017: 2,000,000 rides. Second Year May 2017-April 2018: 4,000,000 Today: April 2022 10,000,000 (May 2021-April
2022)
Kansas City continues to build streetcar routes, where you can even travel into Kansas City, Kansas.
"Downtown Streetcar Wire Pull" - Kansas City (June 17th, 2015)
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| STUDENTS FOR KANSAS CITY STREETCAR CEREMONIES DOWNTOWN ON MAIN STREET AT UNION STATION |
"Local Kansas City school students take part in the the opening ceremonies for the KC Streetcar downtown at Union Station.
Hundreds turned out to get their first ride on a streetcar. The last one closed in 1957. The route is 2.2 miles up and down
Main Street and is free." - Circa 2016
Kansas Streetcar Stories [Riders and Businesses]
"The Business Behind the Kansas City Streetcar" - KSHB TV 41
"New Smart City Links: Data 'Chatter' in Streetcar Corridor Creates Connections" - Kansas City Business Journal (2016)
The STREETCAR & FREE FARE COMBINATION = ENDING FOOD DESERTS
"Almost 90% of the riders surveyed said they rode the buses more as a result of Zero Fare. About 92% said it allowed them
to shop for food more often; 88% said they could see their healthcare providers more easily or more often; 82% said it
allowed them to get or keep a job; and 86% said it made them feel like city leadership is concerned about their needs —
a sore subject for mostly-Black East Side residents, who often complain that the city pays more attention to its whiter and
more affluent west side.
"How Kansas City is Turning Main Street Into a Model for Digital Downtowns" - Curbed (2017)
"Groundbreaking Set for New Kansas City Streetcar Expansion" - KMBC TV 9 ABC [Opening 2025]
Ride KC Streetcar: "Running Daily. Always FREE."
RideKC Kicks Off East-West Streetcar Transit Study
Excited Kansas City Citizens and visitors envision reality with long lines to experience - long awaited correction to history!
Long live Kansas City Streetcars! Cheers to 1.7 Billion dollar boon to start, and more!
"Kansas City Streetcar Project Highlights Smart City Development" - Computerworld [Only 100 Million for entire installation
- including current Conduit Use.... Like throwing in free Streetcar Route Loop!] (2015)
To Pew Foundation; "Smart City" = Kansas City.
"KC Streetcar Pedestrian Safety"
"Respect the Rail: KC Streetcar & Bicycle Safety"
"Kansas City is on the MOVE with the KC Streetcar"
"KC Streetcar Party Dec. 12, 2012"
Streetcar: Regional Alternatives Analysis: Downtown Corridor Supporting Documentation: Alternatives Analysis and Locally Preferred
Alternative Report, March 2012 - Final [Transportation Outlook 2040]
"Rise and Shine Series: KC Streetcar" (March 2022)
"KC Streetcar expansion lays down rails early Thursday morning" 10 MINUTES! - KSHB 41 NBC
Kansas City Streetcar Authority executive director Tom Gerend shares how Streetcars earn their keep by being revenue streams
generated by tax districts:
“We have a taxing jurisdiction where we collect a fare indirectly off the economic activity. People ride our system:
they shop at businesses, they go to restaurants, they stay in hotels. The more people we move, the greater the economic
impact. And we get to capture some of that through an indirect fare on those economic transactions in a way that creates
this sort of symbiotic relationship."
"How the Kansas City Streetcar Turned a Critic Into a Fan" - WCPO Tv 9 (2019)
Kansas City interviews 2 business owners. Keith Novorr, owner of Michael's (a Clothier) is in great support, and wants there
to more streetcar routes for more people to have such rich transit, as it is bringing people not only out of their cars, but
not even purchasing an automobile. Sue Burke, President of Kansas City Air Filter Company worries about sales, and a product-based
business is not geared to service-oriented wealth the streetcar is bringing. [This is great opportunity to share that deliveries
can be made on streetcars, and in future, streetcars made to handle large volumes of items over longer distances.
"The Chiefs Streetcar Rolls Downtown"
"KANSAS CITY'S SECRET WEAPON: IS - THE STEETCAR!!!!"
"Streetcar Wreck Demonstrates Importance of New Parking Rules Along Route: Car Parked Over White Line Sustains Extensive Damage"
- KMBC TV 9 ABC (2016)
"RESPECT THE RAIL" KC Streetcar Buying 2 More Cars as it Hits 5 Millionth Ride" TV 41 KSHB (September 2018)
"This is a 100 year project. This is going to revitalize the city for the rest of my lifetime, and probably my children's
lifetime." - City Council Member, Eric Bunch
"Business Owner Optimistic as KC Streetcar Track Nears 75% Completion for Main Street Extension" - KSHB TV 41 (December 15,
2023)
"KC Streetcar Expansion Still Expected to be Complete by 2025" - KSHB TV 41 (May 3, 2023) [Airport]
HERE COMES THE STREETCARS: #807!!!! "KC Streetcar 807 Arrival" KC Streetcar (February 2, 2024)
"KC Streetcar to Break Ground on New Riverfront Extension" - KSHB TV 41 (March 1, 2024)
"Businesses Eager for KC Streetcar Extension to be Complete" - KSHB TV 41 (April 6, 2022)
"Why the Kansas City Streetcar Succeeds" - Skyward LP (April 27, 2023)
"KC Streetcar Overhead Wires Safety Video" - City of Kansas City (January 14, 2016)
"Staying on Track with the Kansas City Streetcar" - Tom Gerend, Executive Director of the Kansas City Streetcar Authority
| Linda Hall Library (November 17, 2023)
"Construction Crews Working to Finish Key Segment of Kansas City Streetcar Line" - KMBC TV9 (June 2, 2023)
SAINT LOUIS
"I like that the trolley is powered by electric." Chase says.
"I like it because you can see lots of stuff and just ride it all around." adds Josie.
| SMITTEN STREETCAR RiDERS |
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| JOSIE, ELIZABETH, & CHASE ENGELMEYER WAIT EXCITEDLY FOR TROLLEY'S ARRIVAL - Daniel Hill. |
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: STREETCARS
Forest Park - Delmar St. Louis Trolley Loop: Fare Free
MetroLink Light Rail / Trains - Serving Missouri & Illinois [Two Routes: Red & Blue Lines]
Lafayette Square - Lafayette Square Archives
"Green Rivers Greenway Eyeing Hodiamont Streetcar Tracks for Newest Greenway" - KMOV St. Louis (2021)
Dreaming of Streetcars
"Ride of A Lifetime: The Story of St. Louis' Streetcars" - PBS Special - TV 9 PBS
St. Louis Streetcar Project: "Building Neighborhoods | Connecting Jobs"
St. Louis Streetcar - Designed to be modern streetcar lines connecting Downtown St. Louis and Carr - Facebook
Famous St. Louis Streetcars - Flashback Fridays - Metro St. Louis
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| SAINT LOUIS ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN STREETCAR PULLED BY 2 MULES - 1870'S |
MONTANA
"Streetcars" - Montana Memorial Project
NEBRASKA
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: STREETCARS
"It's the right time for Omaha to support a streetcar."
"It’s the right time for Omaha to support a streetcar. “Omaha is rapidly developing from the riverfront to the
University of Nebraska Medical Center. A streetcar will lead to additional development of our core which benefits
the entire city. Mutual of Omaha’s plan to build a new downtown headquarters is the first example of what is possible
and why now is the time. The momentum we have to forever change our urban core is undeniable.” - Mayor Jean Stothert
"The streetcar provides access to jobs, housing, attractions, entertainment and recreation, higher education institutions,
and health care. It will allow residents, employees, and visitors to move into, out of, and around the downtown and midtown
core, limiting the need to drive between destinations and search for parking. And, it will increase the level of new development
along the route, projected at $3 billion over the next 15 years and $5 billion in 30 years."
OMAHA
"The Street Cars of Omaha" - Richard Orr - Streetcars of Omaha and Council Bluffs
"Total Mobility System" - Omaha Streetcar Authority Created - City of Omaha
Creation of Omaha Streetcar Authority: March 11th, 2022
| OMAHA'S FIRST TROLLEYCAR AND TRAILER |
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| APPROXIMATELY CIRCA 1890 - THE WORLD-HERALD |
"Public Transit Consultant Skeptical of Omaha's Streetcar Project" - Omaha World-Herald
It's been in newspapers for A FEW YEARS! No one says, "Highway! Well I don't know. NO TAXPAYER MONEY! NONE AT ALL!"
KEEP GOING OMAHA. YOU WILL BREATHE WELL, AND THEY WILL BE FINALLY - ASHAMED. STATE OF NEBRASKA, GET OUT OT OMAHA'S WAY.
"We should all be sitting down together and talking about big things," Linehan said. "We shouldn't have state senators reading
about in the paper before anybody's given a heads up of what's coming."
A number of Linehan's streetcar bills have been referred to the unicameral's Urban Affairs Committee.
LB389 would restrict the use of tax-increment financing, a tool used to pay for the project. LB691 would require the
city or owner of a fixed rail or streetcar system to pay project-related costs for utilities. LB693 would require an
authority under the Community Development Law to pay project-related costs for utility work for a fixed rail or streetcar
system.
"I love the idea of a streetcar," Linehan said. "It's how we're paying for it that concerns me."
A spokesperson for Jean Stothert says the mayor met with State Sen. Linehan for two hours earlier this month.
"The City is confident in the streetcar project," spokesperson Carrie Murphy said in a written statement on Friday.
AMAZING! STATE WANTS TO ADD TO OMAHA CITY'S SELF-SUFFICIENT BUDGET TO EXPAND STREETCAR ROUTE - FOR FINANCIALLY CHALLENGED
- FIRST!!
"The city says the streetcar will pay for itself with a route from midtown to downtown -- meaning BECAUSE A STRETCAR
BOOSTS THE VALUES OF WHAT IT IT NEAR, A NUMBER OF BUSINESES WILL WANT TO BUILD NEXT TO IT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE
OF THE BENEFITS {OF EYEBALLS BEING RIGHT ON A FIXED ROUTE - STREETCAR PROXIMITY}.
Up to now, we've seen the route, essentially going down Farnam westbound and Harney eastbound, up 10th Street in the Old Market
up to the CHI Health Center, with a loop around there -- while allowing options for expansion. State Senator Justin
Wayne wants the line to extend. to the airport, which would go north on 19th Street, over to 16th and up to Fort Street,
then straight to Eppley, mostly along neighborhoods. Remember, the legislature has already committed $400 million
in Rescue Plan money to transform North Omaha. Organizers believe this is a logical next step while tying the plan to affordable
housing.
“First, get public transit into an area that needs it the most,” Wayne said. “Invest in an area that we've
already said is an economic development goldmine by putting dollars there last year. Three, create a sustainable affordable
housing solution because the state can’t continue to pick up the tab.”
At least two members of Mayor Stothert's Economic Development Team also spoke in support of the plan before the appropriations
committee Friday afternoon. LB477 would earmark that $100 million from the state to build the streetcar line to Eppley, while
also assigning AFFORDABLE HOUSING BENCHMARKS along the route."
OMAHA STREETCAR Advanced Conceptual Engineering
Oil and Natural Gas Company Owner Frowns on Electric Streetcars - any wonder why????
"The Streetcars of Omaha and Council Bluffs" (1948)
"The Omaha-Council Bluffs / Omaha Streetcar" - Wikipedia
"Omaha Streetcar's Impact on Gas, Water Bills" - KETV TV 2 (Dec 13, 2022)
"Portions of Omaha's Streetcar Could be Wireless" - WOWT TV 6 (March 21, 2023)
"Omaha Streetcar moves forward: Nearly $48 million Approved for Cars and Parts" - KMTV TV 3 (May 13, 2024)
"'Already Successful': Streetcar Project Rapidly Creating New Development Downtown, Omaha Mayor Says" - KETV TV 7 (June 18,
2024)
"Officials Address Increase in Cost on Omaha Streetcar Project" - WOWT TV 6 (June 18, 2024)
"Omaha Mayor: Streetcar Costs Will be Offset by Growing Development Along Route" - WOWT TV 6 (June 18, 2024)
"Omaha Mayor: Streetcar Costs Will be Offset by Growing Development Along Route" - (June 18, 2024)
"Price Jumps for Omaha Modern-Day Streetcar Project" - Nebraska Examiner (June 19th, 2024)
Preparing for population rise, Streetcar serves never needing to own automobile, removes part of downtown highway
"Omaha's History with the Streetcar" (May. 30, 2022)
"'Already Successful': Streetcar Project Rapidly Creating New Development Downtown, Omaha Mayor Says" - KETV TV 7 (June 18,
2024)
NEVADA
Las Vegas Monorail (People Mover) - Travels from one hotel to another
NEW HAMPSHIRE
LACONIA
The Streetcar Company - Community Theater [HOPE at least.]
MANCHESTER
Neighborhood Eaton Heights - My Manchester
"New Hampshire Streetcar Restoration at Maine Museum" - Carriage Towne News (2019)
NEW JERSEY
“As our friends in the press are fond of reminding me, I have said many times that I would fix NJ Transit even if it
killed me. Bear with me — I appear to still have a pulse” - Governor Phil Murphy, New Jersey (2024)
Lackawanna Coalition: Advocating for Rail Passengers Since 1979
NJ Transit - 8 Train Routes
NJ Transit - 3 Light-rail Routes
"Quiet Commute"
Delaware Counties of Bucks and Chester, Pennsylvania Counties of Montgomery and Philadelphia, and New Jersey Counties of Burlington,
Camden, Gloucester, and Mercer
"PATCO Speedline: America's Oldest Automated Trains" - Trains Are Awesome (March 27, 2024)
CAMDEN
CLEMENTON
"The attraction opened in 1907 as a "trolley park" intended to spur weekend traffic on a transit line between
then-rural South Jersey and Philadelphia."
JERSEY CITY
MILLBURN
Lackawanna Coalition: Advocating for Rail Passengers Since 1979
NEWARK
"New Jersey's Commuter Rail Network Evolution" - Vanishing Underground
Newark Light-rails and Trains - NJ Transit
"Newark Junction Renewal" - Central Rail Systems Alliance (CRSA) - England
Newark Northgate Railway Station, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England - 14 July, 2022
ROCKFORD
Help Save Rockford's Trolley Number 36
"More Streetcars Please!: Riding the Rails Promoting Better Transportation" - Rockford Register Star (2018)
"I’ve used my background to fight for more mobility for everybody, whether or not they have access to an automobile.
And when I see a streetcar, I think of the big streetcar operations like New Orleans or Philadelphia or San Francisco, where
they are everyday transit and hope that maybe operations like {Rockford’s} remind people of a really great way to get
around to the point where eventually the powers that be that have the decision-making authority will decide to put them in
so we can all ride them." - David Alan
TRENTON
RIVER LINE - "Light-Rail to Trenton"
"Northern New Jersey: Light Rail's Spectacular Comeback"
NEW MEXICO
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: TRAINS & STREETCARS
Children Ages 9 and Under and Active Duty Military and Veterans daily, and Seniors 60+ free only on Wednesdays that Ages 60+
can ride the Rail Runner free every Wednesday
MAP: Rail Runner System - RIO Regional Transit
ALBUQUERQUE
ABQ RIDE "Albuquerque Modern Streetcar" - City of Albuquerque
Rail Runner System Map
ALBUQUERQUE / SANDIA PARK
Sandia Peak Aerial Tramway [Aerial Cable car]
"A visiting tourist in 1885 remarked that the most striking thing about Albuquerque was the sidewalk. 'It is actually
in the middle of the street, being planks nailed between the trolley tracks and used as a walking place, while the rest of
the street was sand or mud.'"
NEW YORK
New York City long ago decided that one train station was enough, and demolished Pennsylvania Train Station to build Madison
Square Gardens. New York City long regrets that decision, and ended up with an underground Pennsylvania Train Station.
Today, Pennsylvania Station is at full capacity. Train routes are being built to go to Grand Central Station, like The Long
Island Railroad. New York well knows that the future is rail, and is well-forward thinking. New York is also expanding train
freight lines. New York knows that reducing trucks equals them no longer ruining their roads.
"How Grand Central Terminal Narrowly Avoided Being Turned Into A 50-Story Office Tower" - The Gothamist
"A Secret Platform That Might Make Penn Station Better" - The New York Times (2022)
"The Return of Passenger Trains" - Eryngo Urbanism (March 13, 2024)
"Residents who cannot afford to pay more than $5 for a one-way transit trip can access only 54% of the jobs that people without
a budget constraint can reach in an hour.
There are pronounced racial gaps to these disparities. As of September 2021, the average white resident in the New
York metropolitan area could access nearly a million potential jobs within 45 minutes {circular}"
"It’s time for a new approach to moving people around the New York Metro Region."
RESULTS: REDUCING FARES, FREE TRANSFERS, MORE FREQUENCY
REPORT: "Renewing the Railroads: How Affordable Frequent Metro-North and LIRR Service Can Grow Ridership and Expand Opportunity"
- Transit Center (2022)
The Roosevelt Island Tramway runs every 7-15 minutes from 59th Street and Second Avenue in Manhattan to Tramway Plaza on Roosevelt
Island.
HOLIDAY NOSTALGIA RIDES! Ride on the New York Transit Museum's 1930s R1/9 train cars! Find them on the "F" Line!
BUFFALO
| LIGHT-RAIL, TRAIN, & SUBWAY ROUTES |
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| WITH MORE BEING BUILT NOW |
Buffalo Street Cary System - Preservation Ready
NFTA Train/Subway
"State Lawmakers Want to Revive Buffalo's Streetcars" - Governing (2021)
"Bring Back Streetcars to Buffalo? Some Lawmakers Say, 'Yes'" - The Buffalo News (2021)
Kansas City Streetcars are MADE IN USA in Elmira, New York by Spain's CAF
Long Island Rail Road: "The Busiest Railroad in North America, Explained" - Joint Transit Association (June 2024)
NEW YORK CITY
THE 5 BOROUGHS: BRONX, BROOKLYN, MANHATTAN, QUEENS, & STATEN ISLAND
By 1920, there were 1,344 miles of track in New York City.
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: FREE TRANSFERS
| TRUE DISTANCE EXISTING BETWEEN STATION & LINES |
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| MAP DISTANCE VERSUS GEOGRAPHICAL DISTANCE - NYC SUBWAY |
MAP: New York City Subway System
The Staten Island Railway
"Governor Hochul, MTA, Announce Facelift for Pennsylvania Station" - TV 12 The Bronx
Long Island Rail Road Expansion (LIRR) - Grand Central Station Connection
Port Authority New Jersey & New York Trains (PATH)
"Roosevelt Island Tram: New York's Cable Car" - Free Tours by Foot
NYC: BROOKLYN
"The Brooklyn Queens Connector (BQX) is a City investment to better connect New Yorkers who have limited transit options
to where they need to go. .... BQX would provide a new transit option for New Yorkers living and working in subway
deserts - areas in Astoria, Brooklyn Navy Yard, and Red Hook where subway service is more than a half-mile walk away."
"The Brooklyn - Queens Connector" (BQX) - New York City Dot
No funding for BQX project in Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) $51 billion 2020 - 2024 Five Year Capital Plan.
- Mass Transit Magazine (2023)
Trolley Lines of Brooklyn, New York 1950's - Periscope Film
"Atlantic Avenue Tunnel and BHRA projects Video Documentaries" - The Brooklyn Historic Railway Association
"I Have Seen The Future: A Tour of the 1939 New York World's Fair"
UTICA
UTICA: "Hidden History - Trolley Cars" - WUTR TV 20 ABC = WFXV TV 33 Fox (2019)
NORTH CAROLINA
"We've paid a heavy price for the time we lost."
- Anthony Foxx, Former Mayor of Charlotte, and United States Secretary of Transportation, (President Obama) Regarding the
segregated, racist, and social classist, as well as financial cost to placing where rails were for streetcar infrastructure
in Charlotte, and restarting the North Carolina trains.
U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Anthony Foxx -"Overheard with Evan Smith" - PBS (2016) [Go to 5:34]
READY FOR RAIL NORTH CAROLINA? - Go Forward
Greater Triangle Population Growth & Investment - Go Forward
The Triangle region expects to add more than a million more people by 2050, and that would mean about a million more cars
on the roads, according to GoTriangle, the regional transit authority.
Triangle System Map - Go Triangle
"Booming Research Triangle Looks Again to Passenger Rail" - Governing (2023)
BELMONT
"Pressley said the discussion about trolleys in Belmont started six years ago with a group of friends, and now Belmont Trolley
Inc. has an entire board full of members helping the project succeed.
One of the trolleys came from Canada and cost Belmont Trolley Inc. about $25,000."
"Non-Profit Working to Restore Trolleys in Downtown Belmont" - Queen City News (2022)
CHAPEL HILL
CHARLOTTE
“We’ve paid a heavy price for the time we lost,” - Former Mayor of Charlotte, and United States Secretary
of Transportation [President Obama]
"The places along its route are where past transit planning decisions have isolated communities.
Anthony Foxx, who grew up near Beatties Ford Road, remembers his grandparents spending their Saturdays driving to two grocery
stores in different parts of the city to pick up vegetables and meat.
The construction of Interstates 77, 85 and 277 spliced historically Black neighborhoods on the west side and cut off residents
from amenities like grocery stores. Even the name Uptown shows how the city was planned in a way that was not equitable.
'I think it was absolutely stupid to call center city, 'Uptown', The streetcar was part of an effort to remedy that.'
says Anthony Foxx, who later served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President Barack Obama." - Axios Charlette (2022)
Charlotte Streetcar, "The Gold Line LYNX" opened July 14, 2015 at 1:00 P.M. with 6 stops. From Time Warner Cable
Arena to Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center, services the heart of uptown Charlotte, providing the main connection
for riders to light rail and bus services, healthcare facilities, food, entertainment, education, and other small businesses.
Beloved Gold Lynx has expanded, with 17 stops and continues to serve. Free Fare!
How to Ride CityLYNX Gold Streetcar Line!
Charlotte Area Transit System - CityLYNX Gold Line Streetcar
Riding LYNX Blue Line Lightrail [Last/First stop borders South Carolina] (2020)
| THE CITY LYNX GOLD LINE STREETCAR [2022] |
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| CORRECT MISTAKE CHARLOTTE: MAKE THEM DEDICATED LANES AND RIDERSHIP SKYROCKETS!!!! |
Lakewood Trolley & Savona Mill - Seversville Neighborhood (2014)
Additional Charlotte Track Adventures, including Steward Creek [Tracks are all there!]
"The N.C. Department of Transportation is looking at big changes for seven {now 15 city/towns} North Carolina cities along
a future rail line that will run from Norlina to Sanford. The 95-mile section of track will be called the S-line corridor,
designed to link Washington, D.C., to Charlotte and Atlanta. {Railroad routes went through every little town, and now it is
returning.}
Rebecca Salmon, Mayor of Sanford, is excited about what the return of the railroad could mean for her city, which has
deep roots in the railroad industry, even deriving its name from a civil engineer with the railroad.
'You can see these railroad tracks connected our town together,' Salmon said. 'Building on our history, knowing where we came
from — a project like this fits so well with building on top of what made us so strong.'
The cities along the future rail corridor are the recipients of a shared RAISE grant of $3.4 million that is intended to be
spent improving the current design and infrastructure of the cities to make them more transit-oriented."
MAP UPDATE 15 Towns & Cities: "Better Rail Service for North Carolina and the Southeast? State Working on the 'Missing Link'"
- Spectrum 1 Charlotte (August 16th, 2022)
RALEIGH
"You are giving every person who can't afford a car $50 a month, that's $600 bucks a year, and for a lot of people that's
a month's rent,' says Meeker. 'It's not even like a one-time $600 check. It's every year for the next 30 years, you're giving
a $600 check.'"
Go Raleigh
"Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program" -City of Raleigh, Go Raleigh
WOODFIN & NORTH ASHEVILLE
Smiling, "I have loved trains all my life. My mom told me I used to sit up in the car seat and point at trains as they went
by.”
“I'm currently permanently employed with the railroad. I work in Sylva as an engineer and other jobs at the railroad,
and I do this. Everyone here is a volunteer. No one’s getting paid right now. Folks just want to see this come to life.
They just want to see this railroad bring some history back to Asheville." - Rocky Hollifield, President of Craggy Mountain
Line
Comment (open it up) reading is valuable.
"Car 85: Return of an Icon" - Lakewood Trolley - North Carolina Transportation Museum
SPENCER
North Carolina Transportation Museum
"Raleigh-to-Richmond Rail Line Gets a $58 Million Boost From the Feds" - Spectrum TV 1 Charlotte (2022)
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
"'I really only live a 'car-lite' life," Mitch Radakovich said. 'To go completely car-free is really exciting to me.'
Fueling his excitement, at present, are plans to expand Amtrak passenger service across Ohio. Those efforts took big
steps forward late last year, with four Ohio-centered expansion proposals winning federal dollars."
"Laure Quinlivan's Streetcar Report" [Cincinnati Checks Out Portland] (2009)
"The Lost Streetcars of Cleveland, Ohio" - Railroad Street
CINCINNATI
"Time to Start Considering Possible Streetcar Expansion?" YES CINCINNATTI!!!! - WKRC TV 12 (2023)
Cincinnati Streetcars for Children with Pily | How do streetcars work? | Trolley's and Trams Tour" - Pily Pals (October 4,
2018)
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: STREETCARS
Cincinnati Bell Connector: Fare Free
"It's Official: Streetcar is Under Budget" = Cincinnati Business Courier (2016)
"Modern Design Makes Streetcar One of Country's Most Universally Accessible" - WCPO TV 9 (2016)
Cincinnati Bell Connector:
2018 Fare Revenue: $330,000
2018 Cost $260,000 for Fare Inspectors, Printing Tickets, Maintaining ticket machines - From then-City Manager Patrick Duhaney's
May 2019 memo
[Note: Does not include new ticket machines, or tickets themselves]
In 2020, Cincinnati Bell Connector went FARE FREE with 5 MILLION BUDGET
"Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio" - History in Your Own Backyard (2020)
"Cincinnati's Terrible Billion Dollar Sale of its Railroad - Alan Fisher (2023)
CLEVELAND
B-Line Trolley - Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority
Rail: 4 Routes - Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority
Streetcar Training Montage
"How to Save Light Rail in Cleveland" (2024)
"The Lost Streetcars of Cleveland, Ohio" - Railroad Street (2022)
"Cleveland's Iconic Terminal Tower" - Railroad Street (2023)
"The History of Terminal Tower & Cleveland's Union Terminal" - Mentor Public Library (2020)
"The Tower, The City, The Center: The Memories and the Dream" - WVIZ TV Cleveland (June 26th, 1990)
"Cleveland Streetcar and Shaker Heights Rapid Transit" (Circa 1950) - Railroad Media Archives
"Cleveland Transit System - Rapid Transit And More" (1960s-1970s) - Railroad Media Archives
COLUMBUS
"Horse Streetcar Era Chronology" History - Columbus Railroads [OHIO]
"Streetcars" History - Columbus Railroads [OHIO]
"What Happened To Columbus's Streetcars?" - WOSU 89.7 FM Columbus
"Desire Grows for Columbus Streetcar"- Columbus Underground
"Never Built Columbus: Transit" - Columbus Underground
"Columbus Is Bringing Back The Streetcar But It Needs Your Help...." - JOY 107.1 FM Columbus
Columbus by Rail" - "Columbus Neighborhoods" - WOSU Public Media
OKLAHOMA
Senate Bill 967 PASSED Governor Signed 2021: Oklahoma geared to expand streetcar service to Will Rogers World Airport, and
creating 3 other lines.
| I LOVE MY STREETCAR!!!!!!!! |
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| STREETCARS ARE NOW HERE FOREVER - RIGHT? |
"The Return of Passenger Trains" - Eryngo Urbanism (March 13, 2024)
OKLAHOMA CITY
Oklahoma City proves ridership explodes when ran FREE STREETCARS
Oklahoma City: "Development, Rather than Ridership, a Measure of Success for Oklahoma City Streetcar" - The Oklahoman
"OKC Could Finally Get a Commuter Rail Line Connecting Downtown to Will Rogers World Airport" - The Oklahoman
OK STREETCAR
The OKC Streetcar is Good, Actually" - Eryngo Urbanism (May 1st, 2024)
PAY FOR PARKING - RIDE STREETCARS FOR FREE!
Pay for Parking and Streetcar is Free!!!!
"When you park in one of EMBARK's four garages, your parking receipt is your ticket for two to ride free for 24-hours."
"The Oklahoma City Streetcar debuted in December 2018 as a downtown transportation solution to make several districts more
accessible to visitors. The beautiful green, blue and pink cars – colors inspired by our iconic redbud trees, as well
as blue sky and Bermuda grass – connect visitors to hotels, dining and attractions throughout Downtown, Bricktown, Automobile
Alley, and Midtown."
OKLAHOMA CITY STREETCAR How-to: Caffeine Crawl!" - OKC CHAMBER
Oklahoma City, OK: Car moves into bike lane, forcing cyclist to move onto streetcar lane in 2019 - The Oklahoman (2022)
OREGON
Cries for Streetcars Testimonies: "'Anything is better than funding highways' says streetcar supporter" - Portland Transport
(2011)
Tilikum means "people," "tribe," & "relatives," invigorating friendly people and friends.
Portland is making a statement, and welcoming challenge. Built a bridge - for the people: for streetcar, walking, rolling,
and cycling.
"Tilikum Crossing: A Bridge for People, Not For Cars" - Street Films
Streetcar named, "Old 300 Riverfront" - "Half A Million Trolley Riders!" - Made by American Car Company in St. Louis, Missouri
1913
PRAISES FOR PORTLAND STREETCARS!!!!!
"Laure Quinlivan's Streetcar Report" [Cincinnati Checks Out Portland] (2009)
PORTLAND
"Why These Streets Are So Good (Portland)" HINT: Because of Streetcars - City Nerd (April 24th, 2024)
Portland Streetcar
"This streetcar, built by United Streetcar, LLC. (a division of Oregon Iron Works), is the first modern-design streetcar
to be built in the United States. The vehicle was delivered by truck this morning, and unloaded onto the tracks at the
Portland Streetcar maintenance facility. The design is based on streetcars built by Skoda in the Czech Republic, but updated
to use parts from US suppliers and to meet the needs of US-based customers."
"Transit Oriented Development, Explained" - City Beautiful (2022)
2012 Streetcar Mobile Musicfest - Portland
"The Portland Streetcar" - View
"Portland Streetcar: 'Best Investment City has Made'" - KOIN TV6 CBS
"Streetcar Idol" - Pdx Memes
"Streetcar Track Science" - Bicycle Tire Stuck? - Resolved!
Tilikum Crossing: Automobileless Bridge - Serving Streetcars, Walkers, Rollers, and Bicyclists
"Are Car-Free Bridges the Future?" - Governing
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: STREETCARS
In Honor of Rosa Parks: February 4th Day is Free Fare - TRIMET
PENNSYLVANIA
“The Fundamental Law of Road Congestion: New roads will create new drivers, resulting in the intensity of traffic
staying the same.”
- Matthew Turner of University of Toronto and Gilles Duranton of University of Pennsylvania
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD MAP (2022)
Delaware Counties of Bucks and Chester, Pennsylvania Counties of Montgomery and Philadelphia, and New Jersey Counties of Burlington,
Camden, Gloucester, and Mercer
"PATCO Speedline: America's Oldest Automated Trains" - Trains Are Awesome (March 27, 2024)
BROOKVILLE
"Cities want modern light rail trains and vintage-style streetcars. Most are built by foreign firms. Few know they also
are manufactured by an American company with deep roots in Rust-Belt western Pennsylvania."
PHILADELPHIA
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) - Streetcar Trolleys
"A Streetcar City Reborn: The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Philadelphia's Trolleys" - How We Get Around (July 7, 2024)
"What's It Like To Operate A Trolley?" The Friends of Philadelphia Trolleys - Classy Whale (April 11, 2022)
Philadelphia Trolleys: From PTC to SEPTA - Various Documentaries - A Ray Neilson Production
"Trolleyology: PCC Car 2168 - A Streetcar Survival Story" - Pennsylvania Trolley Museum (2022)
Philadelphia Trolleys: 1955 Sunday River Productions
"Philadelphia Trolley: North America's Surviving Streetcar Networks" -RM Transit
"Trolleyology: Philadelphia Commuter Rails - A 40-Year Retrospective" - Pennsylvania Trolley Museum
"Rosie": Built in 1909 in Philadelphia this streetcar was named, "The Crescent Rose." It was then exported
to Porto, Portugal where it was in service daily until 1978. It was then shipped back to the states, serving San Francisco
and now bought and brought to Dallas. As you see, Rosie is an affectionate beauty.
"Philadelphia's Ghost Subway Line That's Rising from the Dead" - Alan Fisher (2023)
"Philadelphia's Subway & Light Rail Network Evolution" Vanishing Underground (2022) [History]
Trolley Car Table Tennis Club
"Whiteness, Freedom, and Technology: The Racial Struggle Over Philadelphia's Streetcars, 18591867" - Technology and Culture,
Society for the History of Technology (2011)
"North America's Surviving Streetcar Networks | Philadelphia Trolley" - RM Transit (May 31, 2022)
"Philadelphia's Subway & Light Rail Network Evolution" - Vanishing Underground (July 17, 2022)
"PATCO Speedline: America's Oldest Automated Trains" - Trains Are Awesome (March 27, 2024)
"You Can Ride SEPTA's Historic Green and Cream Trolleys Again: SEPTA Workers Have Finally Restored the Presidents' Conference
Committee Trolleys -- Those are the Green and Cream Trolley Cars -- and They're Making a Return to Route 15." (June 2024)
"Philadelphia's Strange Little Subway Branch | The Broad-Ridge Spur" - Trains Are Awesome (July 6, 2024)
"A Streetcar City Reborn: The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Philadelphia's Trolleys" - How We Get Around (July 7, 2024)
PITTSBURGH
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: STREETCARS [5 and Under Fare Free]
"How Pittsburgh Transit Evolved From Horse-Drawn Streetcars To The Modern T" - 90.5 WESA's 'Good Question' Series (NPR)
Light-Rail - Pittsburgh Regional Transit: 5 and Under Fare Free
"Pittsburgh Streetcars in the 1960s -- East Side / East End Scenes"
"Pittsburgh Streetcars in the 1960s - North Side Scenes"
SCRANTON
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| Electric City Trolley Station Scranton |
The Electric City Trolley Museum Association
Scranton Transit Company - Rail City Museum
WALLINGTON (WAWA)
"Why You Can't Walk to America's Newest Train Station" - Alex Davis (2022)
Willkes-Barre: "Trolley Car on the Road to Restoration" - WNEP TV 16 (2019)
PUERTO RICO
Tren Urbano (Urban Train) - TUTREN Puerto Rico
MAYAGUEZ
"The Tramways of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico" - Allen Morrison
PONCE
"The Tramways of Ponce, Puerto Rico" - Allen Morrison
SAN JUAN
"The Tramways of San Juan, Puerto Rico" - Allen Morrison
"Characterization of the "Publico" System of Puerto Rico" - Transportation Research Record 1212 (1989)
"Getting Around Puerto Rico: Transportation Tips" - Rough Rides
RHODE ISLAND
"In 1929 two former Rhode Island Company Trolley Cars were retired and sold off after being used in Woonsocket, RI. These
cars were then set up as a diner, called the Purple Cat, which expanded sometime after. This expansion added a structure around
the cars covering them up from view. Now the diner has been closed for years and the structure is being torn down. This demolition
uncovered the cars after about 75 years. The cars are planned to be saved and repurposed as part of an antique shop on the
former diner site. This video shows the exposed cars as well as demolition work that is currently in progress."
SOUTH CAROLINA
"Curious as to What People Here Would Think of a Streetcar Project in My Hometown of Greenville, South Carolina" (2023)
South Carolina Railroads - Street Railways - Columbia
SOUTH DAKOTA
"Dakota Life: Preserving South Dakota's Iron Horse Legacy" - South Dakota Public Broadcasting (SDPB)
ABERDEEN
"Catch a Car!" - Aberdeen Magazine (2018)
TENNESSEE
"Now, I know the people
Its all a wonder, everywhere
I say, I know the people
Its all a wonder, everywhere
Because they heard of poor John
Saw around 'lectric car
Now, catch the Central car for
Ride it down to Central Street
I say, I catch the Central car for
Ride it down to Central Street
Lord, I'm 'onna ease it down in Rovers
Catch my baby out on a midnight dream"
"Streetcar Blues" - Sleepy John Estes
"Sleepy" John Adam Estes - Tennessee Encyclopedia
Estes Discography
Memphis only uses "Vintage" Streetcars, and no wonder - with mainly cosmetic maintenance, they last for 128 years
and counting! Memphis is snapping up vintage trolley streetcars to add to their fleet! U2s are in test run, stemming from
the 1960's.
MEMPHIS
Trams in Memphis, Tennessee, USA 2018 [Europeans LOVE ANY STREETCAR!!!!]
"50 Years Before Rosa Parks, A Bold Nashville Streetcar Protest Defied Segregation" - WPLM 90.3 FM NPR (2015)
"Nashville Streetcar Boycott (1905-1907)" - Black Past
TEXAS
10,539 Miles of Rails, and Texas wants - MORE PLEASE!
REPORT: "Texas Rail Plan" - Texas Department of Transportation (2019)
Texas State Railroad Map - Texas Department of Transportation (2016)
"Will Texas' High Speed Rail Stations Be Any Good?" - City Beautiful
"'More Lanes or more Trains?' Proposed Rail Projects in Texas Get Federal Funding Boost" - KERA News (December 8, 2023)
"On Everyone's Mind at the Southwestern Rail Conference? The Proposed Texas Bullet Train" - KERA News (April 17, 2024)
"How The Texas Triangle Shapes America's Future" - Geopolica (July 2, 2024)
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: ON ELECTION DAYS
TRINITY METRO: DALLAS, FORT WORTH, & DENTON COUNTY
"Free Rides for Voting on North Texas Transit" - Trinity Metro (2020)
ABILENE
Abilene, Texas: "Abilene's Very Own Neighborhood Trolley" - Sharing a Sip with Dusty Garison (January 2013)
AUSTIN
Austin Transportation Infrastructure - Autolog (2012) [Majorly Advanced]
Capitol Train Route
As with all politician shifts and different special interests, Austin Citizens and Residents still hope for streetcars.
DALLAS
"Rosie": Built in 1909 in Philadelphia this streetcar was named, "The Crescent Rose." It was then exported
to Porto, Portugal where it was in service daily until 1978. It was then shipped back to the states, serving San Francisco
and now bought and brought to Dallas. As you see, Rosie is an affectionate beauty.
Dallas Streetcar
DALLAS DART: Train, Streetcar, and Lightrail SYSTEM MAP
Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART)
"Ghost Rails of the Belmont Streetcar Line" - Flashback - Dallas
"Dallas: Where Steel Rails Grow Amidst a Sea of asphalt" - Trains (November 4, 2016)
M-Line - McKinney Avenue Transit Authority
"Trolleys and Streetcars Might Be the Solution to Dallas Urban Transportation Woes" - Dallas Real Estate (2015)
"Fixing the World's Oldest Trolleys Is Like Solving a Century-Old Jigsaw Puzzle: As Mechanics at the Car Barn in Dallas Know,
you Can't Just Order a Part From 1909." - Atlas Obscura (August 17, 2023)
"Texas Cities Reap Economic Boon from Light Rail" - "PBS News Hour" (2015)
Texas Rail in Fort Worth - Dallas
"Tom Shelton, a senior program manager with NCTCOG, said the funding became available once it became clear that the Love Field
connector, which was envisioned as a way to move people from the DART station to the airport terminal, was going nowhere.
Shelton and others with the council approached the city to suggest they put the money toward streetcars.
'It's fair to say the city of Dallas' priorities have changed,' he said. 'They have a real commitment to a streetcar network
and system.'"
Dallas City Council found after many options, that expanding streetcar routes is the answer to profitable rail transport.
"Watch: Removal Begins for Historic Dallas Streetcar" - The Dallas Morning News (August 30, 2022)
"Amongst council members, Wednesday’s briefing was a scattershot mix of Don’t-Forget-My-District Sermons."
EL PASO
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: STREETCARS
Sun Metro: Fare Free
"'I love the streetcars because being a kid and getting on the streetcar was a big thing,' Valencia says. 'We didn't
have cars, but going to Juarez was big. El Paso is known for two things: the streetcars and the alligators. They’re
part of the fiber of the history of El Paso'."
FORT WORTH
"Will Streetcars Return to Fort Worth? With Growth Comes a Renewed Interest in Project" - Fort Worth Report (2023)
Texas Rail in Fort Worth - Dallas
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: STREETCARS
Trinity Metro - 40th Anniversary Free Transit for Entire Month of November
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: ON ELECTION DAYS
"Free Rides for Voting on North Texas Transit" - Trinity Metro (2020)
"Trinity Metro to Offer Free Rides to Vote in City Council, Area School Board Races" - Fort Worth Report (2023)
GALVESTON
"The Galveston Island Trolley" to be, or not to be....
TO - BE!!!!!!
"Galveston Island Trolley, Downtown to Galveston Beach, Miner Railcar, 4K Trolley Ride"
HOUSTON
"An American Example of Quality Transport!: Trams Gliding Across the Water in Houston, Texas" (2021)
"You're Wrong About Houston and Here's Why" - City Nerd (2023)
"Houston METRORail Red Line, Siemens S70, Downtown Houston to Fannin South, 4K Train Ride" - HOUExplorer (2023)
Exploring Houston Via Light Rail
METRORail: Houston's Light-Rail/Tram Network
Segregation By Design: "Houston Transit"
"Downtown Houston in Texas, USA - Walking Tour & Travel Guide - Binaural City Sound - Wind Walk Travel Videos (2020)
UTAH
SALT LAKE CITY
Shhh.... "S" is for ~ Streetcar!
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: STREETCARS
"The S-Line: Utah's First Modern Trolley Which Connects Residential and Commercial Areas of Sugar House and South Salt Lake
City." - Ride UTA
TRAX - 1 Train, 3 Light-Rails (Streetcars), and One Traditional Streetcar - (UTA)
UTA's "Fare Free Zone"
Utah Transportation Authority: 5 and Under Ride Free: Fare Free
"Unearthed Streetcar Rail Beneath State Street Shows the Salt Lake City That Was - and Could Be" - Salt Lake City Weekly (2023)
"Salt Lake City's Light Rail and Streetcar are Strangely Similar" - Trains Are Awesome (2023)
VERMONT
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| NEW TRAIN AMTRAK STATIONS!!!! |
BURLINGTON HAS TRAIN SERVICE AFTER 69 YEARS!!!!
BURLINGTON TRAIN SERVICE RETURNS AS AMTRAK ~ July 29th, 2022!!!! - Vermont Biz
Additional 2 Depots along Ethan Allen Express Amtrak to Burlington! - September 1st, 2022
"Southern Vermont is mountainous and sparsely populated, especially in comparison to the neighboring states of New York
and Massachusetts. By the late 1890s, Rutland, Bennington, Brattleboro, Bellows Falls and Springfield all had streetcar systems
with some carrying freight as well as passengers. The Bennington area trolleys developed into a large interconnected system
across state lines to both New York, Massachusetts and eventually even Connecticut."
Vermont Trolleys: Streetcars/Interurban Systems - Circa 1924
"Then Again: Vermont's Love Affair with the Trolley" - Vermont Digger
"The Age Of Trolleys - 1901" - Vermont History
UPPER VALLEY
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: STREETCARS
Upper Valley - Vermont - Advance Transit
VIRGINIA
| KIDS LOVE EVEN BEING TRAMS!!!! |
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| THE TIDE LIGHT RAIL/TRAM IN NORFOLK [HALLOWEEN] |
"Historic Streetcar Tracks Found During Water Main Repair in Old Town" - ALXnow (2020)
NORFOLK
[MAP] TIDE LIGHT RAIL - Norfolk, Hampton Roads Transit
RICHMOND
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| 1920's RICHMOND, VIRGINIA STREETCARS INTERURBAN POSTCARD |
"April 24, 1867: Richmond Streetcar Protest" - Zinn Education Project
"Richmond Rail Transit Feasibility Study" - Submitted to Virginia Department of Transportation, Richmond Area Metropolitan
Planning Organization (2003)
Richmond - Washington D.C. High Speed Rail - The Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT)
"A History of Richmond's Trolleys" - Church Hills Peoples' News
WASHINGTON
| Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, 1909 |
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| Streetcar carrying Scandia Club members during Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition |
"Alaska Yukon Pacific Expo" - Seattle's Government
FUTURE RAILWAY FOR POPULATION GROWTH: "Seattle is Building a $54 Billion New Railway" - The B1M (2022)
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: STATEWIDE FOR AGES !8 & YOUNGER
Youth ORCA Card - Ages 18 & Younger: Fare Free Statewide! [Start: September 1st, 2022]
PRAISES FOR PORTLAND STREETCARS!!!!!
Seattle Streetcars Featured: "Streetcars Could Transform Downtown Los Angeles" - Los Angeles Streetcar Company (2010)
OLYMPIA
"Riding the Rails: Olympia and Tumwater's Historic Streetcar System" - Thurston Talk, Thurston County
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: STREETCARS
SEATTLE
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: STATEWIDE FOR AGES !8 & YOUNGER
"Take a Ride on the Seattle Streetcar" - Seattle Streetcar System
Seattle Streetcar - Ready to Ride the Streetcar? - Seattle Department of Transportation
Seattle Monorail & Light Rail (2022)
"Ride the Wave" Sound Transit: West Seattle and Ballard Link Extensions [Begin building in 2024]
MAP: Sound Transit [Some routes currently being built]
TACOMA
"Sound Transit breaks ground on Hilltop Tacoma Link Extension" - Railway Age
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: STATEWIDE FOR AGES !8 & YOUNGER
Sound Transit: Trains & Streetcars
MAP: Sound Transit [Some routes currently being built]
In 1993, K Street was renamed to become Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Still has streetcars running on it.
WEST VIRGINIA
WISCONSIN
| Milwaukee "The Hop" Streetcar Historic Third Ward |
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| Fare Free! ~ Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
KENOSHA
Kenosha, Wisconsin Streetcars
East Troy Railroad Museum ~ East Troy Streetcar Depot Museum
WISCONSIN: "East Troy Railroad Museum Acquires Historic La Crosse Streetcar" [For restoration....] - La Crosse Tribune
MILWAUKEE
Mayor Tom Barrett of Milwaukee on the Streetcar:
"I'm Betting on the Future of This City"
"This is part of a bigger thing that's going on here. It's about the future of this city and what your view is about the
future of this city.
Barrett pointed to, 'The Young and the Restless and the Nation’s Cities,' a study by City Observatory that argues that
millennials are moving to cities and spurring economic growth and revitalizing urban areas. Barrett wants to attract
and keep these young professionals with, among other things, a strong public transit system. He argues that cash-strapped
new grads will be saddled with student debt, opt to delay owning a home in favor of renting, and will want to take transit
instead of owning or depending on a car.
Milwaukee's in the middle of the largest 51 cities in terms of young professionals who live in or near Downtown, according
to City Observatory. Barrett took a look at the cities above and below Milwaukee and noticed something interesting—every
city with a higher concentration of young professionals Downtown had a streetcar or light-rail system in the ground or in
the works.
"I'm betting on the future of this city and betting on the young people to come and to stay." - Mayor Barrett
"'Would I have preferred that we built the 13-mile regional system we were planning in 1996?,' said Ald. Robert Bauman, a
streetcar supporter. 'You bet. No question about it. By now it would be up and running for almost 10 years. We'd probably
be debating extensions to the airport, extensions into Waukesha County.'" (2015)
FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT: STREETCARS
Milwaukee "The Hop": Fare Free
Watch Milwaukee's Streetcars! Interactive map of "L" Line and "M" Lines!
The Hop Streetcar Map [L Line Now Running Too]
"Hopcast Episode 12" - Featuring Mike Doble (August 24th, 2022)
Schedule Your Trip Here! Sunday 7 A.M. to 10 P.M. Monday through Friday 5 AM - 12 AM Saturday from 7 A.M. to 12 A.M. Peak:
Every 15 minutes Off Peak: Every 20 minutes.
Milwaukee Amtrak Train Station
"Milwaukee: A City Built on Water" - PBS
"Milwaukee Lines 1957 - Streetcars and Street Cars!" [Part 1]
"Milwaukee Lines 1957 - Streetcars and Street Cars!" [Part 2]
Milwaukee: New Streetcar Crews Unearth Historic Original Streetcar Lines" TMJ4 News
"TMER & L: The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company" - PBS (1977) [Proceed to 35 Seconds. Stay tuned for more footage
after show ends]
"Feds Don't Select Milwaukee For Streetcar Grant But Beloit Gets Funds to Build a Bridge to a Casino." - Urban Milwaukee (2022)
THE HOP: RECOVERING FROM PANDEMIC FACTS -Operational Costs:
"There are no transit systems in the United States that make a direct profit and it is misguided to evaluate the effectiveness
of a transit system based on this measure. Transit is a municipal service intended to improve the mobility of its citizens,
particularly those that do not have access to other forms of transportation. Fiscal benefits of transit, particularly rail-based
transit, are realized indirectly by attracting developers, employers, employees, residents, and visitors that contribute to
the tax base and general attractiveness of the City.
Of the 12 modern streetcar systems in the United States, 7 charge fares and recover, on average, 8% of operating costs. While
The Hop does not currently charge a fare, The Hop recovers approximately 30% of annual operating costs through sponsorship/advertising
and federal grant revenues based on the 2020 operating budget.
Under State Statute 85.20, The Hop is the only transit system in Wisconsin that is not eligible for state funding under
the Wisconsin Urban Mass Transit Operating assistance program. If The Hop were eligible for state funding under this program,
approximately 70%-75% of annual operating costs would be recovered through non-City sources."
MILWAUKEE: "The Hop's New Streetcar Route Offers Full Service and Opens Concourse at The Couture" - WISN 12 News (April 2024)
"$353M Milwaukee Streetcar Expansion Planned; Funding 'a Challenge'" - WITI TV 6 News Fox Milwaukee (June 2023)
FREE STREETCARS FOREVER! "Milwaukee Streetcar Funding Gap Prompts Parking Meter Hike" - WITI TV 6 Fox News Milwaukee (June
7, 2023)
"Streetcar Situation: The Hop Struggles, Milwaukee in Financial Hole" - WITA TV 6 News Milwaukee Fox (June 2021)
WYOMING
List of streetcar systems in the United States - Wikipedia [Not complete and outdated]
JACKSON HOLE
Aerial Tram/Cablecar
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