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The Detroit Downtown Trolley, also known as the Washington Boulevard Trolley and Detroit Citizens Railway, was a heritage trolley line in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, United States. The narrow-gauge system opened September 20, 1976, as a United States Bicentennial project, and was closed on June 21, 2003.
A transport museum is a museum that holds collections of transport items, which are often limited to land transport (road and rail)—including old cars, motorcycles, trucks, trains, trams/streetcars, buses, trolleybuses and coaches—but can also include air transport or waterborne transport items, along with educational displays and other old transport objects. [1]
A look at North Shore museums with free and discounted prices between Jan. 18 and Jan. 28. Museum Days on Milwaukee's North Shore offers winter-and-wallet-friendly activities Skip to main content
On March 2, 1958 the last streetcar took its passengers from downtown Milwaukee to the suburbs of Wauwatosa and West Allis, ending 99 years of trolleys in the city. In 1964, with the completion of the new interstate freeway system the M&TS introduced the "Freeway Flyer" from Mayfair Shopping Center to downtown, a service that proved to be very ...
Participating museums include the Milwaukee Art Museum, Harley-Davidson Museum, Mitchell Park Domes, Discovery World and Museum of Wisconsin Art. These 30 museums are offering discounted admission ...
Friday, Nov. 1, is a free admission day in honor of Isabel Bader, a Milwaukee philanthropist who died in 2022. According to the museum's website, Bader would have turned 98 on Friday and "later in ...
The trolley ran over a one-mile L-shaped route from Grand Circus Park to near the Renaissance Center, via Washington Boulevard and Jefferson Avenue, using narrow-gauge trams acquired from municipal rail services outside the U.S. Most of the Detroit cars that saw service from 1976 to 2003 had been acquired from Lisbon, Portugal. [34]
Milwaukee County Parks and Friends of Boerner Botanical Gardens sponsor a free-admission day at the botanical gardens, 9400 Boerner Drive in Hales Corners, on May 19 from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.