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A new century brought a new type of transportation to parts of Franklin County. The Chambersburg, Greencastle, & Waynesboro Street Railway Company was chartered on June 17th, 1901. This trolley car ...
The Berkshire Street Railway and affiliates by 1909 could carry a passenger from North Canaan, Conn., to Hoosac Falls, N.Y., and any spots in between, not to mention Hinsdale or Huntington or South ...
Early on, several streetcar companies, such as Capital City Street Railway Co., City Electric Street Railway Co. and Little Rock Street Railway, competed for the right to plan routes, run track and ...
An Evans Avenue streetcar heads south on Main Street in Fort Worth in 1905. Note the web of overhead lines that provided power to the electric streetcars. Courtesy Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, ...
As a youngster in the early 1950s, I looked forward to Saturdays when my mother would take me on the blue and white Dawes Avenue bus to go “upstreet" to the North Street shopping district. By the late ...
This scene south on Higuera Street at about Chorro Street distributed by the Morning Tribune in postcard size to its readers on Jan 1, 1890. San Luis Street Railway pulled by horse is at right while ...