The SparaKoff is the only streetcar like it in the world. Built in 1959 and converted to its present use in 1995, "the Koff" is a rolling bar. And if there were ever a candidate for the globe's second ...

Oregon once had one of the most extensive streetcar systems in the United States. Streetcars provided cheap, comfortable public transportation - before there were automobiles. Streetcar lines formed ...

It’s the rail deal. Proponents of the mayor’s plan to build a $2.5-billion trolly line connecting Brooklyn and the outer borough of Queens unveiled on Monday a true-to-size model of the system’s ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. In the early 1900s, Cedar Rapids was connected to Marion, Iowa City, Waterloo and Mount Vernon via an ...

This blast from the past not only showed the routes of the many interurban lines in Northern Ohio, but showed how the lines were able to profit on weekends by transporting people to the shady suburbs.

Watching Car No. 21 pass by, a bystander might view the colorful conveyance as quaint and charming but be unaware of the streetcar’s lively history. Birney trolleys came to our town 100 years ago this ...

Budapest, Hungary’s capital city, has a unique tram history. Not only does the city use five different kinds of streetcars, including the longest trolley in the world, but the trams in Budapest ...