In the 1880s, the world relied on horses as the most effective means to get from one place to another. As cities grew, wagons clogged downtown streets and people searched for a more efficient means of ...

Like San Francisco’s cable cars, Yakima’s electric trolley system is a nationally recognized historic fixture and a tourist attraction. But the Yakima Valley Trolleys were also the city’s first mass ...

Recently, I visited the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, with my family. While we were, along the street we just crossed, there suddenly appeared a trolley taking residents and travelers through ...

In theory, if an electric trolley system still existed in York County, powered by nuclear or hydroelectric, there could be a mass transportation system in place today that is both emission-free and ...

You probably drive past remnants of Raleigh's old trolley system all the time, without even realizing it. Before the rise of automobiles, our small capitol city boasted an electric trolley system – ...