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The St. Charles Streetcar Line is a historic streetcar line in New Orleans, Louisiana. Running since 1835, it is the oldest continuously operating streetcar line in ...
Streetcars have been an integral part of the public transportation network of New Orleans since the first half of the 19th century. The longest of the city's streetcar lines, the St. Charles Avenue line, is the oldest continuously operating street railway system in the world.
The street was laid out atop a slight rise, the remains of an old natural levee, in connection with the construction of the New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad, which became the St. Charles Streetcar Line. The long traffic avenue originally used for horse-drawn buggies and wagons, with public rail transit running down the center, helped fuel ...
Nov. 2—HIGH POINT — The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority hosted a block party on Oct. 28 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the use of Perley A. Thomas streetcars, which were built in ...
In addition to the Carrollton spurs of both the Canal Streetcar Line and St. Charles Streetcar Lines, two transit routes, operated by New Orleans Public Service at first and later New Orleans Regional Transit Authority, were assigned to South/North Carrollton Avenue: one local (est. in the 1950s, first known as just Carrollton, and later 90 ...
As of 2019, the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority operates 35 Perley Thomas 900-series streetcars in active daily use, nearly a century after their construction. Dating from 1923 and 1924, the Thomas streetcars are operated on the St. Charles line (the oldest continuously operating
Streetcar network map. The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA or NORTA) is a public transportation agency based in New Orleans.The agency was established by the Louisiana State Legislature in 1979, and has operated bus and historic streetcar service throughout the city since 1983, when it took over the city's mass transit system after nearly six decades' control by New Orleans Public ...
Emergency services at the scene on Bourbon Street in New Orleans after a vehicle drove into a crowd on Jan. 1, 2025, killing at least 14 people. / Credit: Gerald Herbert/AP