San Diego (CaliforniaStreetcarsTampa (FloridaTransportation modesTrolley carsUrban areasUrban developmentThe transportation mode touted as being best-suited to serve the newer, high-density, mixed-use neighborhoods in urban/suburban downtown areas is the streetcar, the...
Kelly, a graduate student in history at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, said he has been a streetcar and railroad buff as long as he can remember. He and the four men restoring the funeral car spent 1 1/2 years working on a two-decker Hill of Howth streetcar used in Dublin from 1923 to ...
Located in New York City’s Flatiron District, this three-story brownstone is the site of Theodore Roosevelt’s birth in 1858 and served as his family’s home until 1872, when they moved uptown. In 1916 the original house was demolished, so the current site is a recreation spearheaded by ...
How trolleys are coming back.How trolleys--light rail mass transit--are coming back. The cost advantage over subways; reliability; convenience. The use of trolleys as public transit in Portland, Oregon, San Diego, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Los Angeles.EBSCO_AspU...