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Bookmark or Share- A Streetcar City - National Museum of American HistoryAmerican cities in the 19th century were walking cities—most residents worked and shopped close to where they lived. But as electric streetcar (trolley) systems were built in the 1880s, 1890s, and early 1900s, cities expanded.
- Streetcars in North America - WikipediaStreetcars or trolley (car)s (American English for the European word tram) were once the chief mode of public transit in hundreds of North American cities and towns. Most of the original urban streetcar systems were either dismantled in the mid-20th century or converted to other modes of operation, such as light rail.
- List of streetcar systems in the United States - WikipediaThis 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.
- Tram - WikipediaA tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in Canada and the United States) is a urban rail transit in which vehicles, whether individual railcars or multiple-unit trains, run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way.
- The real story behind the demise of America’s once-mighty ... - VoxStreetcar systems went bankrupt and were dismantled in virtually every metro area in the United States, and National City was only involved in about 10 percent of cases.
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