In the early 1900s, Buffalo boasted a system of public ... but today as an introduction to a large topic we will focus on one particular trolley car. Well, make that two trolley cars—this ...

The predominant streetcar operator in Western Pennsylvania in the early 1900s was the Pittsburgh Railways Company. At its peak in 1918, it operated 99 trolley routes using 2,000 trolley cars ...

Another famous electric car of the early 1900s was Oliver Parker Fritchle's 100-Mile Fritchle Electric, which, as its name implied, could travel 100 miles on one charge. It weighed around 2,100 ...

In the early 1900s, Cedar Rapids was connected to Marion, Iowa City, Waterloo and Mount Vernon via an electric streetcar system.

In childhood I had seen trolley cars on rails with electric power from overhead wires only when we visited family in Boston. During the early 1900s, hundreds of U.S. cities had trolleys, also called ...