Horse-drawn streetcars go into service in the Twin Cities on July 15, 1872 With the rapid growth of the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis in the mid-nineteenth century, the need for a reliable ...

Suburbs began to be developed beyond the half-mile circle around Statehouse Square. The process begun by horse-drawn streetcars moved even faster with the advent of electrified streetcars in 1890.

The last surviving San Luis Obispo horse-drawn street car of the San Luis Street Railway is on display at the Dallidet Adobe. The car was donated by the George P. Bell family. The system ran from ...

Illustration from 1855 showing a horse-drawn streetcar in New Orleans, drawn by Fran Bellow. “All those discrimination that had slavery at the bottom have become nonsense,” declared the ...

The remainder of the streetcar routes were phased out on May 13, 1939. “The following morning, the Lima City Lines began bus operation,” the News wrote June 16,1999.

From horse-drawn transport to historical relic, learn how the first streetcar in San Luis Obispo, California, was a witness to history and what happened after it was retired.

The last streetcar to operate in Louisville pulled into the Queen Street loop at 6 p.m., May 1, 1948. ... when horse-drawn cars first ran over rails here.

In New York, for instance, horse-drawn streetcar companies were losing more than $2,000 a day (around $50,000 in today’s dollars) due to the loss of animal labor.

Daft’s dream ended in 1889, when Frank Sprague invented the overhead trolley wire system that is still used today to power streetcars, and earning the title of Father of the Electric Streetcar.

A vehicle of distinction is this antiquated, 20-passenger horse-drawn San Luis Street Railway streetcar which was “Number One” on the San Luis Obispo transportation routes in the days of ...

Shreveport, Louisiana, once had mule-drawn streetcars for decades before they were electrified. However, streetcar equality was not always guaranteed, as African American men were forcibly ejected ...