We live in a new age of trolleys and streetcars. South Lake Union was connected to downtown by rail in December 2007. Soon, the much-delayed First Hill streetcar will begin operating, and plans to ...

Tourism officials in Medicine Hat, Alta., have bought a third trolley to provide tours and stage special outings in the city.

Pikes Peak looms over the Antlers Hotel in 1914 as trolleys roam downtown. It was long ago, 1950, but the childhood memory is as bright as that trolley was in Denver. “The big yellow cars, that’s what ...

“What we’re running is the last surviving mile of the Como-Harriet line,” said Aaron Isaacs, a historian with the Minnesota ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Sun Tran is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Back in 1975, Tucson's bus service had rebranded itself as Sun Tran. From mules, to trolleys, to buses, Tucson's transit history ...

How can you tell if an event is going to be of extraordinary historical importance? Well, there are many ways, but for this discussion, it would be if it happens at 3:10 a.m. on a Sunday morning on ...

In the late 19th century, the solution to every transportation problem was “build a railroad.” The narrow gauge Pacific Coast Railway was built in the 1870s between Port Harford, San Luis Obispo and ...

Seven years after MBTA officials announced a ten-year plan to “transform” the Mattapan-Ashmont trolley line, representatives ...

DILLSBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — You’ve likely heard of rail trails, but now there will be a new trolley trail that won’t run a streetcar. A trolley line was used to connect Dillsburg and Mechanicsburg.

Mayor Harold Weinbrecht wrote on his blog in 2023 that two trolleys had been returned. When the town did get rid of them, it was at a loss.

One of Rick Laubscher’s earliest memories, he said, is of riding as a 5-year-old with his mother on one of San Francisco’s old streetcars down Market Street on the way to see a circus. Laubscher, now ...

The Rickenbacker Woods Foundation is hoping to use a trolley salvaged from the demolished Spaghetti Warehouse in Franklinton to honor Granville T. Woods, a Black inventor from Columbus. This rendering ...