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Media related to St. Charles Avenue Streetcar Line at Wikimedia Commons; St. Charles Streetcar line schedule; Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. LA-22, "New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad, Carrollton Transit Station, 8201 Willow Street, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA", 30 photos, 6 color transparencies, 3 photo caption pages
This is a list of past and present streetcar (tram), interurban, and light rail systems in the United States. System here refers to all streetcar infrastructure and rolling stock in a given metropolitan area. In many U.S. cities, the streetcar system was operated by a succession of private companies; this is not a list of streetcar operating ...
Indianapolis Traction Terminal, 1905. The first electric streetcar began operation on June 18, 1890, replacing the last of the mule-drawn streetcars in 1894. [5] [6] Electrification of the city's streetcar system dramatically improved efficiency and expediency, allowing residents to live further from the civic and business center of downtown.
This is a route-map template for the St. Charles Streetcar Line, a United States heritage streetcar.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The St. Charles Avenue line in New Orleans runs down the park-like "neutral ground" in the center of St. Charles Avenue, while the surviving Xochimilco line in Mexico City, the interurban lines in Cleveland, and almost all of the above-ground portions of the Boston system have similar rights-of-way, and, thus, are generally treated as "light ...
The Jefferson Avenue line streetcar line was converted to buses in 1954, then the Michigan Avenue in line 1955. The days of PCC service on Gratiot Avenue were numbered as construction of the Edsel Ford Expressway inched closer to Gratiot, the DSR refused the option to operate the PCC streetcars over the new expressway. Thus, Gratiot Avenue PCC ...
The QLINE is a 3.3-mile-long (5.3 km) streetcar system in Detroit, Michigan, United States.Opened on May 12, 2017, it connects Downtown Detroit with Midtown and New Center, running along Woodward Avenue (M-1) for its entire route. [4]
In 1889, writer Martha R. Field observed that "St. Charles Avenue is seven miles long, and is paved with asphalt its entire length" and was lined "with beautiful homes." [2] St. Charles Avenue was the favored site for construction of mansions by the wealthy from the mid 19th century through the early years of the 20th century. A number of the ...