The first streetcar line, developed by Irish-American John Stephenson, was the New York and Harlem Railroad's Fourth Avenue Line which ran along the Bowery and Fourth Avenue in New York City.

* Judah Street in San Francisco and its N-Judah Muni streetcar line are named after him.

In the 1920s, the Pier expanded to have its own streetcar line, a theater, and an emergency room.

Designed by electric power pioneer Frank J. Sprague, the trolley system opened its first line in 1888, and electric streetcar lines rapidly spread to other cities across the country.

The bus route itself had replaced an earlier streetcar line.

The Wilkes-Barre Traction Company formed a streetcar line from Georgetown to Nanticoke and over the river into Plymouth ceasing operations in the mid 1940s.

The F Market heritage streetcar line turnaround at Market and 17th-streets at the Castro Street Station, a Muni Metro subway station, attracts many tourists which was renamed Harvey Milk Plaza in honor of its most famous resident.

The speculators, organized into the Los Angeles Suburban Home Association, including Harry Chandler and Harrison Gray Otis of the Los Angeles Times, Moses Sherman, a streetcar line owner, and Hobart Johnstone Whitley, a real estate promoter with ties as far back as the " Land Run of 1889 " ( the Great Oklahoma Land Rush ), bought Mr. Van Nuys out and prepared to " sell " the San Fernando Valley.

This line was last used on June 9, 1940, the last day of streetcar service in Houston ; the replacement is still operated by METRO as the 40 along Telephone Road.

Pennsylvania broad gauge was used on the former ( defunct ) Pittsburgh Railways and the defunct West Penn Railways () and is still used on the current Pittsburgh Light Rail, on some SEPTA lines such as the Philadelphia streetcar lines and the Philadelphia Market-Frankford subway line ( & ) as well as in New Orleans ().

However, there is no 24-hour service on any bus or streetcar line.

The New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal ( UPT )/ Loyola Avenue corridor streetcar line started construction in August 2011 and is planned to begin revenue service starting in June 2012.

Until 1948, streetcar line # 7 of the Key System ran to Kensington from Berkeley along Arlington Avenue, terminating in the small commercial area at Amherst Avenue.

The line was built by the Carpentersville, Elgin and Aurora Railway from a connection with the streetcar system in Elgin, Illinois and ran for four miles, terminating at the Illinois Iron and Bolt foundry on Main Street.

To accommodate these new residents and commuters, in 1905 a new bridge was built to cross the Wabash River including tracks for the city's streetcar and interurban line.

A streetcar line was extended to the area in 1904.

During 1915 – 1931 a New Orleans streetcar line operated between New Orleans and Kenner.

Public transportation between Sparrows Point, Dundalk and Baltimore City was operated by the United Railways and Electric Company's ( later the Baltimore Transit Company ) # 26 streetcar line which ran down the middle of Dundalk Avenue until August 1958.

The land was re-subdivided into smaller lots, and Moyer promoted the land by including information that a streetcar line was soon to be developed in the area.

Called the Washington, Spa Spring and Gretta Railroad, the trolley was eventually discontinued in 1923, partially due to competition from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the streetcar line in Mount Rainier.

The Massachusetts Turnpike exit in Ludlow In the early 20th century Ludlow developed from a mill town into a streetcar suburb of Springfield, Massachusetts, as a trolley line ran over the bridge from Indian Orchard.

This led, in 1889, to the construction of a streetcar line, something one would only expect in much larger cities.

With a location on the Manchester Trail, a route that was mostly frequented by mail coaches and prairie schooners going west, Maddenville in the 1800s became a prosperous little town on the outskirts of St. Louis, to which it was connected by a streetcar line.

About a decade later, a streetcar line was laid down Florissant Road from what is now Suburban Avenue west to Wesley Avenue.

Carl, who was stationed in Appleton, Wisconsin, organizing for the Social Democrats, was in Berger's office and made it his business to escort Paula to the streetcar.

At the age of ten, when he was working as a newsboy in the Loop, he was knocked down by a streetcar which resulted in his permanently shortened leg.

Sometimes the streetcar was late.

But when he called for his withered, wrinkled sister Rose to care for him and the children, had he guessed that all he would remember of his woman was the memory of her climbing into that streetcar??

Toto was replaced with Imogene the Cow, and Tryxie Tryfle, a waitress, and Pastoria, a streetcar operator, were added as fellow cyclone victims.

His first job in New York was as a writer of the streetcar card ads for a company that previously had employed another Baltimore resident, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

One of Harrison's biggest enemies was Charles Yerkes, whose plans to monopolize Chicago's streetcar lines were vigorously attacked by the mayor.

When she was four, her mother was killed when a drunken stranger pushed her off a moving streetcar.

Other works include Trilogy of Desire, which was based on the life of the Chicago streetcar tycoon Charles Tyson Yerkes and composed of The Financier ( 1912 ), The Titan ( 1914 ), and The Stoic.

NCL converted the Key System's electric streetcar fleet to diesel buses, tracks were removed from Oakland's streets, and the lower deck of the Bay Bridge was converted to automobile traffic, which reduced the passenger carrying capacity of the bridge.

One notable example was Pittsburgh's Skybus, which was proposed by the Port Authority of Allegheny County to replace its streetcar system, which, having large stretches of private right of way, was not suited for bus conversion.

The term light rail was devised in 1972 by the U. S. Urban Mass Transportation Administration ( UMTA ) to describe new streetcar transformations that were taking place in Europe and the United States.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, an extensive streetcar system was constructed throughout the city with the first streetcar running in 1872 and electrification of the system in 1889.

The first streetcar company in Fort Worth was the Fort Worth Street Railway Company.

Her father was a railroad executive whose investments in streetcar lines and real estate made the family wealthy.

When the streetcar system was dismantled in 1959, it was an obvious right-of-way for a highway, so the Décarie autoroute was dug there.

At one time, nearly every city in the U. S. with population over 10, 000 had at least one streetcar company: nearly all were privately owned and were later dismantled.

The company ultimately dismantled these systems and replaced them with bus systems in what became known as the ' Great American streetcar scandal ' and formed the inspiration for the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

As the area streetcar system, operated by Twin City Rapid Transit, was being dismantled in the early 1950s and replaced with diesel buses, Blumenfeld owned a 16 % stake in the company.

The result of the provision was the divestiture of utility-owned electric streetcar companies, which were then acquired by various parties and very often dismantled in what became known as the Great American Streetcar Scandal.

* 1940-Houston dismantled the last of its streetcar system.