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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 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.
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 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 ...
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 ...
Heritage streetcar systems are streetcar, tram or light rail systems which use either replica or historic vehicles. Most are operated by mass transit agencies or railway museums. Most are operated by mass transit agencies or railway museums.
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 ...
Transportation in Indianapolis consists of a complex network that includes a local public bus system, several private intercity bus providers, Amtrak passenger rail service, four freight rail lines, an Interstate Highway System, an airport, a heliport, bikeshare system, 115 miles (185 km) of bike lanes, and 116 miles (187 km) of trails and greenways.