List of streetcar systems in the United States
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This is an all-time list of streetcar (tram), interurban and light rail systems in the United States, by principal city (or cities) served, and separated by political division, with opening and closing dates. It includes all such systems, past and present; cities with currently operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows. It is one in a group of lists that collectively cover all countries of the world; the other lists are indexed at List of town tramway systems.
This is not a list of streetcar operating companies. It is a list of U.S. cities that were the focus or base of a streetcar system at one time, with starting and ending dates for each general type of streetcar service (e.g. horsecar, electric streetcar) in each city or metropolitan area. "System", as used in the article title, refers collectively to all streetcar infrastructure and rolling stock in a given metropolitan area, used by any of several different operating companies over many years, often passing from one operating company to the next. The "Name of system" column is intended to distinguish the few cases where two distinctly different systems were in operation in one city at the same time, but is also used to identify operators that have a Wikipedia article. In many U.S. cities, the streetcar system was operated by a succession of different private companies during the years in which the system existed.[1]
The use of the diamond (♦) symbol indicates where there were (or are) two or more independent streetcar (or light rail) systems operating concurrently within a single metropolitan area. Usually, this refers either to interurban lines connecting the area's principal city with other cities or to cases where separate cities within one metropolitan area were served by independently operated streetcar systems.
Unless otherwise noted in the "Type" column, all systems listed were/are conventional streetcar (tram) systems (although some past systems might have been termed light rail if that 1970s-introduced term had existed at the time they were in operation). Interurban and light rail systems are noted in that column for convenience.
For lists of existing systems only, see the following:
- Light rail in the United States
- List of United States light rail systems by ridership
- Light rail in North America
- List of rail transit systems in the United States (which also includes subway/metro and commuter rail systems)
Alabama[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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Alabama Power Company | Anniston | Horse | ? | ? | ||
Electric | 1888 | 20 Apr 1932 | Formerly Anniston Electric and Gas Company[2] | |||
Birmingham | Horse | 24 Jan 1884 | 16 Apr 1898 | |||
Steam | 25 May 1885 | 26 Feb 1904 | ||||
Electric | 10 Oct 1891 | 19 Apr 1953 | ||||
♦ Bessemer | Steam | 14 May 1890 | 26 Feb 1904 | |||
Electric | 25 Jul 1906 | 1915 | City streetcar service absorbed by interurban services. | |||
♦ Birmingham - Bessemer (two lines) | Steam | 14 May 1890 | 26 Feb 1904 | |||
Electric | 3 Jun 1902 | 14 Jul 1952 | ||||
Calera | Steam | ? | ? | |||
Decatur | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | Nov 1903 | ? | ||||
Eufaula | Steam | ? | ? | |||
[3] | Fairhope | Petrol (gasoline) | ? | ? | ||
Alabama Power Company[3] | Gadsden | Mule[4] | 1887 | 1888(?) | ||
Steam | Oct 1888 | ? | ||||
Electric | Jun 1889 | Jan 1934 | ||||
[3] | Gadsden | Electric | Sep 1913[5] | ? | ||
Alabama Power Company | Huntsville | Steam | ? | ? | ||
Electric | ? | 15 Feb 1931 | Formerly Huntsville Railway, Light and Power Company[2] | |||
Lannett | Steam | ? | ? | Connected Lanett with , and West Point, Georgia. | ||
[3] | Mobile | Horse | 1877 | 1893 | ||
Steam | 1890 | ? | ||||
Electric | 18 Jan 1893 | 1941 | ||||
Capital City Street Railway | Montgomery | Electric | 15 Apr 1886 | 8 Apr 1936 | ||
Opelika & Auburn Electric Railway | Opelika | Steam | ? | ? | Connected Opelika and Auburn. | |
Selma | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Steam | ? | ? | ||||
Electric | ? | 1924 | ||||
[3] | Sheffield | Steam | ? | ? | ||
Electric | May 1904 | Feb 1933 | ||||
Tuscaloosa | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Steam | ? | ? | ||||
Electric | 1914 | Nov 1941 | ||||
Union Springs | Horse | ? | ? |
- Peschkes (Part Four, 1998, page 26) states that a company was organized to build a steam tramway in Blountsville but never started construction, and that other sources tabulate this system among those in operation.
Arizona[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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[3] | Douglas | Steam | 1903 [6] | ? | ||
Electric | 1905 [7] | 1920 [8][9] | ||||
Phoenix Street Railway[3] | Phoenix (first era) | Horse | 5 Nov 1887 | 8 Jun 1895 | ||
Electric | 28 Sep 1893 | 16 Feb 1948 | See Phoenix Street Railway. Interurban line to Glendale opened 1911. Planned extensions to Scottsdale, Tempe, and Mesa were never built. | |||
Tempe (in Phoenix metropolitan area) | Horse | 22 Feb 1893[10] | Feb 1898[11] | |||
Valley Metro Rail | Phoenix (second era) | Electric | Light rail | 27 Dec 2008 | Also serves the Phoenix suburbs of Tempe and Mesa | |
[2] | Prescott | Electric | 28 May 1904 | August 1911 | Temporary service to Chautauqua fair in June 1912.[15] Cars sold to Douglas in March 1915.[16] | |
[3] | Tucson (first era) | Horse | 1898 | 1906 | ||
Electric | 1 Jun 1906 | 31 Dec 1930 | ||||
Old Pueblo Trolley | Electric | 17 April 1993 | October 2011[17] | Volunteer-operated heritage streetcar using one mile of original track. | ||
Sun Link | Tucson (second era) | Electric | 25 Jul 2014[18] | Reintroduction | ||
Warren–Bisbee Railway | Warren – Bisbee | Electric | Interurban | 12 Mar 1908 | 31 May 1928 | Connected Warren and Bisbee. |
Arkansas[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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Bentonville | Petrol (gasoline) | 14 Jun 1914 | 11 Jun 1916 | |||
[3] | Eureka Springs | Horse | 14 Jul 1891 | Jan 1896 | ||
Electric | 1896 | by 1922 | ||||
[19] | Fort Smith | Horse | 2 Aug 1883 | 1889 | ||
Electric | 1896 | 15 Nov 1933 | System included interstate line to Arkoma, Oklahoma. See also Fort Smith Trolley Museum, which operates non-transit heritage streetcar service along city streets. | |||
♦ Van Buren | Electric | ? | ? | |||
[3] | Helena | Horse | Dec 1894 | Jan 1910 | ||
Electric | Jan 1910 | 5 Aug 1933 | ||||
[3] | Hot Springs | Horse | ? | ? | ||
Electric | ? | 1938 | ||||
[3] | Hoxie – Walnut Ridge | Horse | 1889 | 1905 | ||
Electric | 1 Jul 1904 | 1928 | ||||
[3] | Little Rock (first era) | Horse | 1876 | 1895 | ||
Steam | 3 Jul 1888 | 1889 | ||||
Electric | 23 Dec 1891 | 1 Sep 1947 | Also served North Little Rock, which before 1917 was named Argenta. | |||
Metro Streetcar | Little Rock (second era) | Electric | 1 Nov 2004 | Heritage streetcar system. Originally called the River Rail Streetcar; renamed Metro Streetcar in 2015. Also serves North Little Rock. | ||
[3] | Pine Bluff | Horse | 4 Nov 1886 | 1902 | ||
Electric | 1902 | 1934 | ||||
Searcy | Horse | ? | ? | Connected Searcy with West Point. | ||
Stuttgart | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Sulphur Rock | Horse | 1885 | 1926 | Believed to be the last town tramway operated by horse traction in the U.S. | ||
[3] | Texarkana | Horse | 1894 | 1900 | ||
Electric | 1900 | 31 Dec 1934 | Interstate streetcar system, also served Texarkana, Texas. | |||
[3] | Walnut Ridge | Electric | ? | ? |
California[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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♦ Alameda | Horse | ? | 1892 | |||
Electric | 7 May 1893 | 1930 | ||||
♦ Anaheim | Horse | 1 Mar 1887 | 1899 | |||
Bakersfield and Kern Electric Railway[3] | Bakersfield | Horse | May 1888 | 1900 | ||
Electric | 17 Feb 1901 | 28 Feb 1942 | ||||
♦ Berkeley | Horse | 1873 | 1875 | |||
Steam | 1875 | 1891 | ||||
Electric | 12 May 1891 | 28 Nov 1948 | ||||
[2][20] | ♦ Burlingame | Accumulator (storage battery) | 22 Feb 1913 | 19 Nov 1917 | ||
Sacramento Northern Railroad[3] | Oroville–Chico–Marysville–Sacramento | Electric | Interurban | 12 Aug 1904 | 28 Nov 1948 | |
♦ Coronado | Horse | 1886 | 1886 | |||
Steam | 1886 | 1893 | ||||
Electric | 6 Oct 1893 | 31 May 1947 | ||||
[3] | Eureka | Horse | 20 Aug 1888 | 30 Apr 1897 | ||
Electric | 15 Sep 1903 | 31 Oct 1940 | ||||
Visalia Electric Railroad[3] | Exeter | Electric | Interurban | 1904 | 1944 | |
Diesel | 1944 | 1992 | ||||
Fresno Traction Company[3] | Fresno | Horse | 25 Jan 1889 | Sep 1901 | ||
Electric | 19 Oct 1902 | 20 May 1939 | ||||
Glendale and Montrose Railway[3] | ♦ Glendale | Electric | Interurban | 13 Mar 1909 | 30 Dec 1930 | |
♦ Hayward | Horse | ? | 1 Sep 1909 | |||
♦ Imperial Beach | Petrol (gasoline) | 1910 | 1913 | |||
Accumulator (storage battery) | Apr 1913 | 1916 | ||||
Lake Elsinore | Electric (?) | ? | ? | Note for Lake Elsinore: Only one source (dated 1888) states that an electric tramway was in operation here. No other sources provide confirmation. | ||
♦ Long Beach | Electric | Sep 1902 | 24 Feb 1940 | Reintroduced (LRT) 14 Jul 1990 as part of Metro Rail's Blue Line. | ||
Los Angeles | Horse | 1 Jul 1874 | ? | |||
Cable | 8 Oct 1885 | 2 Oct 1902 | ||||
Steam | 1886 | ca. 1915 | ||||
Los Angeles Railway[21] | Los Angeles | Electric | 1901 | 1958 | Name was changed to Los Angeles Transit Lines in 1945 | |
Pacific Electric[21] | Los Angeles | Electric | Interurban and streetcar | 1901 | 1958 | |
Los Angeles MTA[21] | Los Angeles | Electric | 3 Mar 1958 | 31 Mar 1963 | ||
Angels Flight | Los Angeles | Funicular | 1901
1996 |
1969
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Reopened in 1996 a few blocks away from the original site. | |
Metro Rail (A, E, L and C lines) | Los Angeles | Electric | Light rail | 14 July 1990 | Part of Los Angeles' larger Metro Rail network, which also includes the heavy rail B and D lines. | |
Marysville – Yuba City | Horse | 17 Aug 1889 | ? | |||
Electric | 1907 | 15 Feb 1942 | ||||
♦ Monrovia | Horse | ? | 1903 | |||
[3][22] | Monterey – Pacific Grove | Horse | 5 Aug 1891 | 1905 | ||
Electric | 1905 | Dec 1923 | ||||
♦ National City | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Nevada County Traction Company[3] | Nevada City – Grass Valley | Electric | Interurban | 15 Oct 1901 | 1923[23] | |
Oakland | Horse | 30 Oct 1869 | 1883 | See List of California street railroads | ||
Steam | 1875 | ? | ||||
Cable | 9 Nov 1886 | 21 May 1899 | ||||
Electric | 12 May 1891 | 28 Nov 1948 | see also Key System, San Francisco. | |||
Key System | ♦ Oakland – Hayward | Electric | 17 May 1892 | 10 Mar 1935 | ||
Key System | ♦ Oakland – Richmond | Electric | 7 Jul 1904 | 7 Nov 1933 | ||
♦ Ontario – Upland | Horse | 1887 | 1895 | |||
Pacific Electric | Electric | Interurban | 1895 | 6 Oct 1928 | Formerly Ontario and San Antonio Heights Railroad Company[2] | |
Oxnard | Petrol (gasoline) | 1908 | Jan 1927 | |||
♦ Palo Alto | Electric | 14 Nov 1906 | 27 Sep 1925 | see also San Jose. | ||
♦ Pasadena | Horse | 1886 | 1895 | |||
Electric | 1893 | 19 Jan 1941 | Reintroduced (LRT) 26 Jul 2003 as part of Metro Rail's Gold Line. | |||
Paso Robles | Horse | ? | 1903. | |||
Petaluma | Horse | 1889 | 1903 | |||
Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railroad[3] | Petaluma – Santa Rosa | Electric | Interurban | 1 March 1905 | 1 July 1932 | Ran from Petaluma to Santa Rosa via Sebastopol and Forestville |
♦ Pomona | Horse | 10 Feb 1888 | 1896 | |||
Steam | Apr 1888 | Jun 1909 | ||||
Electric | 3 Jul 1909 | 3 Jul 1924 | ||||
♦ Redlands | Horse | 23 May 1899 | 22 Jul 1899 | |||
Steam | 4 Jul 1888 | 14 May 1915 | ||||
Electric | 23 Dec 1899 | 20 Jul 1936 | ||||
Shipyard Railway | ♦ Richmond | Electric | 7 Jul 1904 | 7 Nov 1933 | The Shipyard Railway was operated by the transit company Key System. | |
♦ Riverside | Horse | 1887 | 1898 | |||
Steam | 1887 | 1898 | ||||
Electric | 11 Apr 1899 | 10 Jan 1943 | ||||
Sacramento (first era) | Horse | 20 Aug 1870 | ca. 1892 | |||
Accumulator (storage battery) | 1887 | 189_ | ||||
[2] | Electric | 1890 | 1915 | |||
Pacific Gas and Electric Company[3] | Electric | 1915 | 4 Jan 1947 | Reintroduced 12 Mar 1987 (see below). | ||
Sacramento (second era) | Electric | Light rail | 12 Mar 1987 | LRT[24] (see Sacramento RT Light Rail). | ||
♦ San Bernardino | Steam | 1885 | 1903 | |||
Electric | ? | 8 Apr 1942 | ||||
San Diego (first era) | Horse | 3 Jul 1886 | 30 Jun 1896 | |||
[25] | Steam | 29 Nov 1887 | 1892 | |||
[25] | Cable | 7 Jun 1890 | 1 Oct 1892 | |||
San Diego Electric Railway[3][25] | Electric | 31 Dec 1887
21 Sep 1892 |
June 1889
24 Apr 1949 |
See San Diego Electric Railway. Reintroduced as LRT, 19 July 1981 (see below). | ||
San Diego Trolley | San Diego (second era) | Electric | Light rail | 19 Jul 1981 | Operated by MTS, via SDTI.[26] Preceded by the San Diego Electric Railway. | |
♦ San Diego – National City | Electric | 1 Dec 1907 | 10 Jan 1930 | |||
San Francisco (first era) | Steam | ? | ? | |||
Horse | ? | ? | ||||
Clay Street Hill Railroad | Cable | 1 Sep 1873 | 12 Sep 1891 | The world's first cable car line | ||
Sutter Street Railway | Cable | 27 Jan 1877 | ? | |||
California Street Cable Railroad | Cable | 10 Apr 1878 | 31 Jul 1951 | Purchased by the city of San Francisco in 1952, with one line of the system reopened, and still in service. | ||
Geary Street, Park and Ocean Railway | Cable | 16 Feb 1880 | 6 May 1912 | |||
San Francisco | Cable | 1878 | [27] See: San Francisco cable car system. | |||
Muni Metro | Electric | Light rail (after 1980s upgrades) | 29 Jul 1891(?)
1917 (1980) |
Renovated as partially "light rail" in 1980-1982.[27] See: San Francisco Municipal Railway. See also: Key System, Oakland. | ||
Electric | 1 Sep 1995 | Heritage streetcar operation; see F Market & Wharves and E Embarcadero. | ||||
Peninsular Railway[3] | San Jose (first era) | Horse | ? | ? | ||
Steam | 1896 | Sep 1901 | ||||
Electric | 16 May 1888 | 10 Apr 1938 | Reintroduced as LRT, 11 Dec 1987 (see below). | |||
San Jose (second era) | Electric | Light rail | 11 Dec 1987[28][29] | LRT[30] (see Santa Clara VTA Light Rail). | ||
San Luis Obispo | Horse | 1888 | 1901 | |||
♦ San Pedro | Electric | 1905 | 23 Jan 1938 | Reopened as a Heritage streetcar (see below) | ||
Port of Los Angeles Waterfront Red Car Line | Electric | 12 Jul 2003 | Heritage streetcar[31] | |||
♦ Santa Ana – Orange | Steam | 1897 | 1914 | |||
Electric | 10 Feb 1906 | 14 Sep 1930 | ||||
Santa Barbara | Horse | 1875 | 1896 | |||
Electric | 1 Oct 1896 | 30 Jun 1929 | ||||
Union Traction Company[3] | Santa Cruz | Horse | 3 Aug 1875
Oct 1908 |
1899
Jul 1910 |
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Electric | ? | 14 Jan 1926 | ||||
Santa Maria | Horse | ? | ? | |||
♦ Santa Monica | Horse | 1891 | 1906 | |||
Electric | 1 Jul 1896 | 13 Dec 1929 | ||||
Santa Rosa | Horse | 1877 | 1905 | |||
♦ South San Francisco | Electric | 1902 | 31 Dec 1938 | |||
[3] | Stockton | Horse | 6 Apr 1874 | 1892 | ||
Electric | 13 Jul 1892 | Sep 1941 | ||||
Vallejo | Horse | ? | ? | |||
San Francisco, Napa and Calistoga Railway | Vallejo – Calistoga | Electric | Interurban | 1905 | 1937 | Ran from Vallejo to Calistoga via Napa, Yountville, Oakville, Rutherford and St. Helena |
Watsonville Railway and Navigation Company[2] | Watsonville | Electric | Interurban | May 1904
Apr 1911 |
1907
Oct 1913 |
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Woodland | Horse | ? | ? |
Colorado[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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Aspen | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Boulder | Horse | 1891 | 1893 | |||
Electric | Jun 1899 | 1931 | ||||
Colorado Springs | Horse | 1887 | ? | |||
Accumulator (storage battery) | 1890 | ? | ||||
Electric | ? | 30 Apr 1932 | ||||
♦ Colorado Springs – Manitou Springs | Electric | 1890 | 30 Apr 1932 | |||
Denver (first era) | Horse | 1871 | ? | |||
Cable | 22 Dec 1888 | 1 Apr 1900 | ||||
Electric | 1888? | 3 June 1950 | See Denver Tramway. | |||
RTD Light Rail | Denver (second era) | Electric | Light rail | 7 Oct 1994 | Currently operates six light rail lines. | |
Durango | Horse | 1883 | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1920 | ||||
Florence | Electric | 1912 | Tramway line built and two cars purchased, but public service was not started. | |||
Fort Collins Municipal Railway | Fort Collins | Electric | 29 Dec 1907 | 30 June 1951 | Heritage streetcar service opened December 29, 1984,[32] using the same name as the former system (see Fort Collins Municipal Railway); service was temporarily suspended for maintenance during 2010-2011. | |
Grand Junction | Horse | 1890 | 1909 | |||
Electric | 1909 | 1928 | ||||
Greeley | Electric | 1910 | 1923 | |||
Leadville | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Pueblo | Horse | 1879 | 1890 | |||
Electric | 6 Jun 1890 | 1948 | ||||
♦ Manitou Springs | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Trinidad | Horse | 22 Feb 1886 | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1926 |
Peschkes (Part Four, 1998, Page 59) states that, despite various evidence, the following town did not have a tramway:
Connecticut[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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Bridgeport | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1937 | ||||
Bristol | Electric | 189_ | 1 Aug 1935 | |||
Danbury | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1926 | ||||
Derby | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1937 | ||||
Greenwich | Electric | 189_ | 1927 | |||
Groton | Electric | 1904 | 1928 | |||
Groton and Stonington Street Railway | Groton - Westerly, Rhode Island | Electric | Interurban | 1904 | 1928 | |
Connecticut Company | Hartford | Horse | 3 May 1863 | 1892 | ||
Electric | 1888 | 27 Jul 1941 | ||||
Meriden | Horse | 187_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1931 | ||||
Middletown | Horse | 187_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1929 | ||||
Milford | Electric | 189_ | 27 Nov 1937 | |||
Mystic | Horse | 187_ | ? | |||
Electric | 190_ | ? | ||||
New Britain | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1937 | ||||
New Haven | Horse | 6 May 1861 | ? | |||
Electric | 1892[33] | 25 Sep 1948 | ||||
New London | Horse | 187_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1934 | ||||
Norwalk | Horse | 186_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1935 | ||||
Norwich | Horse | 187_ | ? | |||
Electric | 188_ | 1936 | ||||
Norwich and Westerly Railway | Norwich - Westerly, Rhode Island | Electric | Interurban | 18 Aug 1906 | 31 Dec 1922 | Ran from Norwich to Westerly via Preston, Ledyard, North Stonington and Pawcatuck |
Stamford | Horse | 1887 | ? | |||
Electric | 1894 | 1933 | ||||
Stratford | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1934 | ||||
Torrington | Electric | 189_ | 1929 | |||
Wallingford | Electric | ? | 1937 | |||
Waterbury | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1937 | ||||
Willimantic | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | 1903 | 1936 |
Delaware[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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Middletown – Odessa | Steam | 1906 | 1909 | |||
Wilmington | Horse | 30 Jun 1864 | ? | |||
Electric | 1888 | 1940 |
District of Columbia[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Washington (first era) | Horse | 29 Jul 1862 | 26 May 1900 | |||
Cable | 12 Apr 1890 | 23 Jul 1899 | ||||
Electric | 17 Oct 1888 | 28 Jan 1962 | See: Streetcars in Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia trolleys.
See also Notes below. | |||
DC Streetcar | Washington (second era) | Electric | 27 Feb 2016[34] | Reintroduction; see DC Streetcar. |
- Notes for Washington, D.C.:
- Operation into Maryland, ? – 2 January 1960.
- Operation into Virginia, 1923 – 25 August 1956.
Florida[]
Name of system | Location | Traction type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (from) | Date (to) | Notes |
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Altamonte Springs | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Arcadia Street Railway and Improvement Company | Arcadia | Horse | 1881 (Approximate) | ? | [35][36] | |
Avon Park | Horse | ? | ? | Connected Avon Park and Pabor Lake. | ||
Bartow Street Railway | Bartow | Horse | 5 August 1885 | ? | ||
Manatee Light & Traction Company: | Bradenton | Electric | Interurban between Manatee and Bradenton | 1903 | 1905 | |
Coral Gables Rapid Transit | ♦ Coral Gables | Electric High Speed Interurban | 30 Apr 1925 | 3 Nov 1935 | ||
Central of Florida Railway Company | Daytona Beach | Accumulator (storage battery) | ? | 1918 | Daytona, Daytona Beach, and Seabreeze were separate cities at this time. The rail company built the original Broadway Bridge for its trolleys.[37][38] | |
Everglades | Accumulator (storage battery) | ? | 1929 | [39] | ||
Fernandina and Amelia Beach Railway | Fernandina Beach | Electric | 1902 | 1915 | [40] | |
Fernandina Beach Municipal Railway's | Fernandina Beach | Electric | 1916 Summer Season Only | 1916 Summer Season Only | [40] | |
Fort Meade Street Car Company | Fort Meade | Horse | 1 Jan 1887 | 1913 | [41] | |
Gainesville Street Railway | Gainesville | Horse | ? | ? | ||
GAINESVILLE STREETCAR | Gainesville | Pantograph Electric | PLANNED | PLANNED | [42] | |
Green Cove Street Railway | Green Cove Springs | Horse | 3 Aug 1891 | ? | Connected Green Cove Springs and Magnolia Springs, bridging Governors Creek, served all railroad stations and steamboat docks.[43] | |
Jacksonville Street Railway | ♦Jacksonville | Horse | 1880 | May 1895 | Various companies consolidated to create Florida's largest streetcar system.[44] | |
Electric | 24 Feb 1893 | 12 Dec 1936[44] | ||||
Jacksonville and LaVilla Street Railway | Horse | 24 Jan 1885 | 1895[44] | |||
Pine Street Railway | Horse | 1882 | Name Changed to Main Street Railway when the street name was changed by the City. | |||
Main Street Railway | Horse | 1882 | 1902 | |||
Electric | 24 Feb 1893 | 12 Dec 1936 | ||||
North Jacksonville Street Railway, Town and Improvement Company | Electric | 1 July 1902 | 31 Mar 1911 Merged to for Jacksonville Traction Company.[44] | |||
Jacksonville and Suburban Railway | Horse | 1 July 1882 | 1887[44] | |||
Jacksonville Electric Company | Electric | 1902 Formed in merger of the Main Street Ry and the Jacksonville Street Railway | 31 Mar 1911 Merged to for Jacksonville Traction Company.[44] | |||
South Jacksonville Municipal Railways | Electric | 15 May 1924 | Operated by the Jacksonville Traction Company until its demise 12 Dec 1936.[44] | |||
Ortega Traction Company | Electric | May 1905 | 1909(?) Folded into the Jacksonville Traction Company.[44] | |||
Duval Traction Company | Electric | 1918 for the Camp Johnston Extension | Operated by the Jacksonville Traction Company until its demise 12 Dec 1936.[44] | |||
Jacksonville Traction Company | ♦Jacksonville | Electric | Express Trolley to Camp Johnston and San Jose along former Interurban route | 31 Mar 1911 | 1932 | Sold to Motor Transit Corp a subsidiary of the National City Lines/General Motors Cabal, they phased out services until closure on 12 Dec 1936.[44] |
Key West Electric Company | Key West | Horse | 1881 | ? | ||
Electric | ? | 10 Jun 1926 | ||||
Leesburg Transfer Company | Leesburg | Horse | October 31, 1884 | ? | Two miles of 3'gauge wooden strap rail track that connected depots with steamer arrival points via Main and Canal Streets. | |
Miami Traction Company | Miami | Accumulator (storage battery) | 1915 | 1921 | ||
Electric | 1st time: 25 Jul 1906[45]
2nd time: 7 Jan 1922 |
1st time: 3 Sep 1907
2nd time: 14 Nov 1940 |
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Miami Beach Railway Co. | ♦ Miami Beach | Electric | Dec 1920 | 17 Oct 1939 | ||
Mulberry | Horse | ? | ? | |||
IMC Agrico Phosphates Co. | Mulberry | Electric | Trolley Freight only | ? | ? | [46] |
Ocala Street and Suburban Railroad | ♦ Ocala | Horse | 1888 | April 1900 | ||
Silver Springs and Western | ♦ Ocala | Horse and Steam Dummy | Interurban services between Ocala and Silver Springs | ? | ? | Connected Ocala and Silver Springs. |
Orlando Street Railway | ♦ Orlando | Horse | ? | ? | ||
Orlando and Winter Park Railway | ♦ Orlando – Winter Park | Steam Dummy Line | Interurban service between Orlando, Winter Park and Oviedo | ? | ? | known as the Dinky Line, later part of East Florida and Atlantic Railroad, later part of Seaboard Air Line Railroad, later part of SCL |
Florida East Coast (The Ormond Hotel tram) | Ormond Beach | Horse | ? | ? | ||
Palatka and Heights Street Railway | Palatka | Horse | ? | ? | [47] | |
Florida East Coast (The Royal Poinciana-Breakers Hotel tram) | ♦ Palm Beach | Horse | Approx. 1896 | Approx. 1928 | ||
Panacea | Horse | ? | ? | Connected Panacea and Sopchoppy. | ||
Pensacola Electric Terminal Company | Pensacola | Electric | City and Interurban to Warrington and Navy Yard | ? | Jun 1932 | |
St Augustine and South Beach Railway | ♦St. Augustine | Horse | ? | ? | ||
Steam | ? | ? | ||||
Electric | Early Interurban through Salt Marshes | ? | ? | [48] | ||
St. Augustine Light and Power | ♦St. Augustine | Electric | Interurban with freight to Anastasia Island and Beaches | ? | 1930 | [49] |
St. Petersburg Municipal Railways | St. Petersburg | Electric | ? | 1949 | ||
Sanford Traction Company | Sanford | Petrol (gasoline) | Interurban to Beck Hammock and Cameron City | 1908 | ? | Under the same ownership as the Sanford and Everglades Railroad[50] |
Tallahassee | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Tampa Street Railway | ♦ Tampa (First Streetcar Era) | Horse and Steam | 1885 | 1892 | [51] | |
Tampa Street Railway and Power Company | ♦Tampa | Electric | 1893 | 1894 | [51] | |
The Consumers Electric Light and Street Railway Company | ♦Tampa | Electric | 189s | 1899 | [51] | |
Tampa Electric Company TECO | ♦ Tampa | Electric | 1899 | 1946 | [51] | |
TECO Line Streetcar | ♦ Tampa (second era) | Electric | 21 Oct 2002 | Heritage streetcar system[52] operated by the Hillsborough Transit Authority. | ||
Winter Park Company | ♦ Winter Park | Mule | 6 Feb 1885 | 1903 |
Georgia[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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Albany | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Albany Transit Company[53] | Electric | 1912 | 1920 | |||
Americus | Electric | 1891 | 1893 | |||
Athens | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1930 | ||||
Atlanta (first era) | Horse | 8 Sep 1871 | ? | See Streetcars in Atlanta. | ||
Steam | 1887 | ? | ||||
Electric | 23 Aug 1889 | 17 Apr 1949 | ||||
Atlanta Streetcar | Atlanta (second era) | Electric | 30 Dec 2014[54] | Modern streetcar line – Downtown Loop: construction began early 2012,[55] with line opening December 30, 2014.[54] | ||
Augusta | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1937 | ||||
Brunswick | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Steam | ? | ? | ||||
Electric | 1909 | 1924 | ||||
Cedartown | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Clarkesville | Horse | ? | 1918 | |||
Columbus | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Steam | ? | ? | ||||
Electric | ? | 1935 | System included interstate line to Phenix City, Alabama. | |||
Covington | Horse | ? | 1918 | |||
Cumberland Island | Horse | ? | ? | |||
♦ Fairburn | Petrol (gasoline) | ? | 1925 | |||
Gainesville | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 4 Apr 1925 | ||||
Griffin | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Macon | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1935 | ||||
Milledgeville | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Steam | ? | ? | ||||
Accumulator (storage battery) | ? | 13 Jun 1914 | ||||
Rome | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Steam | ? | ? | ||||
Electric | ? | 1931 | ||||
St. Marys | Horse | ? | ? | |||
St. Simons | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Steam | ? | ? | ||||
Petrol (gasoline) | ? | ? | ||||
Savannah | Horse | 1869[56] | ? | |||
Steam | ? | 1892[56] | ||||
Electric | 1890[56] | 1946[56] | Heritage streetcar service (the River Street Streetcar) with limited days and hours of operation opened 11 February 2009. | |||
Talapoosa | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Accumulator (storage battery) | ? | ? | ||||
Valdosta | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1934 | ||||
Washington | Horse | ? | 1916 | |||
Waycross | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1917 |
Peschkes (Part Four, 1998, Page 44) states that, despite the assumption of another historian, there is no evidence for tramways in the following towns:
- Dahlonega
- Dalton
- LaGrange
- Lexington
- Summerville
- Thomasville
Hawaii[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Honolulu | Horse | 28 December 1888 | ? | |||
Electric | 1900 | 1 July 1941 | Note: New light rail line under construction. |
Idaho[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Boise | Horse | 1887 | ? | |||
Electric | Interurban | 1891 | 1928 | |||
Caldwell | Electric | Interurban | 1907 | 1928 | ||
Lewiston | Electric | Interurban | 3 May 1915 | 3 Aug 1929 | Interstate tramway, extended between Lewiston and Clarkston, Washington. | |
Sandpoint | Electric | Interurban | Apr 1910 | 1917 |
Illinois[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alton Granite & St. Louis | Alton | Horse | ? | ? | ||
Electric | ? | 1932 | ||||
Anna – Jonesboro | Electric | 1907 | 1925 | |||
Aurora, Elgin and Fox River Electric | Aurora | Horse | 1884 | ? | ||
Electric | 1891 | 17 Nov 1934 | ||||
♦ Belleville | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1932 | Reintroduced (St. Louis LRT) 2001. | |||
Elgin and Belvidere Electric Company | Belvidere | Electric | 1895 | 30 Jun 1915 | ||
Bloomington – Normal | Horse | 1888 | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1936 | ||||
♦ Blue Island | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Cairo | Horse | 1880 | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1933 | ||||
Illinois Central Electric Railway | Canton | Gas | ? | ? | "Gas" refers to town gas, not petrol (gasoline). | |
Electric | 1907 | 25 Jul 1928 | ||||
Centralia | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 1892 | 1929 | ||||
Champaign – Urbana | Horse | 1863 | ? | |||
Electric | 1890 | 1936 | ||||
Charleston | Electric | 1904 | 1925 | |||
Chicago Transit Authority | Chicago | Horse | 1858 | 1906 | ||
Cable | 28 Jan 1882 | 21 Oct 1906 | ||||
Electric | 21 Oct 1890 | 21 Jun 1958 | See Chicago Surface Lines. See also Hammond, Indiana | |||
♦ Chicago Heights | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Chillicothe | Horse | ? | ? | |||
♦ Cicero – Berwyn | Horse | ? | ? | Also experimental operation with steam and gas (town gas) traction. | ||
Electric | ? | 10 Apr 1948 | ||||
Danville | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 1891 | 1936 | ||||
Decatur | Horse | 1876 | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1936 | ||||
DeKalb | Electric | ? | ? | |||
♦ Dixon | Electric | May 1904 | 17 Sep 1925 | |||
Du Quoin | Horse | ? | ? | Connected Du Quoin and St. Johns. | ||
East St. Louis & Suburban | East St. Louis | Electric | ? | 1935 | System operated interstate tramway services to St. Louis, Missouri. Reintroduced (St. Louis LRT) 1993. | |
Aurora, Elgin and Fox River Electric | Elgin | Horse | 1884 | ? | ||
Electric | ? | ? | ||||
♦ Evanston | Electric | ? | 1935 | |||
Freeport Railway Light & Power | Freeport | Horse | ? | ? | ||
Electric | 1891 | 1933 | ||||
Galesburg | Horse | 1885 | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1931 | ||||
Rock Island Southern | Galesburg | Electric | Interurban | 1906 | 1926 | Freight service ended in 1951 |
♦ Granite City | Electric | ? | 1958 | Interstate suburban line from St. Louis, Missouri. | ||
Harrisburg | Electric | 1913 | 1933 | |||
♦ Harvey | Electric | 1892 | 189_ | |||
Hillsboro | Electric | 1906 | ? | Interurban served Hillsboro & Litchfield | ||
Jacksonville | Horse | 1867 | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1930 | ||||
Joliet | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1934 | ||||
Kankakee | Electric | 1891 | 1931 | |||
Kewanee | Electric | ? | Feb 1936 | |||
LaSalle – Peru | Steam | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 1891 | 1926 | ||||
Lincoln | Electric | 25 Dec 1891 | 1929 | |||
Mattoon | Electric | 1904 | 1927 | |||
Mechanicsburg – Buffalo | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | ? | ||||
♦ Moline | Electric | 1902 | 1913 | Absorbed by the Tri-City Railway in 1913. | ||
♦ Moline | Electric | ? | 1936 | |||
Rock Island Southern | Monmouth | Electric | Interurban | 1906 | 1926 | Freight service ended in 1951 |
Mount Vernon | Electric | ? | 1917 | |||
Murphysboro | Electric | 1903 | 1927 | |||
Ottawa | Electric | 1889 | 1934 | |||
Paris | Electric | ? | 1928 | |||
Pekin | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 11 Nov 1935 | ||||
Illinois Power Company | Peoria | Horse | 1870 | ? | ||
Electric | ? | 1946 | ||||
Pontiac | Electric | 23 Apr 1905 | 24 Nov 1925 | |||
Princeton | Electric | 1906 | 1929 | |||
Quincy | Horse | 1867 | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1930 | ||||
Rockford Public Service | Rockford | Horse | 1881 | 1889 | ||
Electric | 1889 | 3 Sep 1936 | ||||
Rock Island | Horse | 1866 | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1940 | Operated as part of Davenport, Iowa, system. Operated interstate service to Davenport, Iowa. | |||
Rock Island Southern | Rock Island | Electric | Interurban | 1910 | 1926 | Freight service ended in 1952 |
Illinois Power Company | Springfield | Horse | 1865 | ? | ||
Electric | 1893 | 27 Dec 1937 | ||||
Sterling | Electric | May 1904 | 17 Sep 1925 | |||
Streator | Electric | 1891
1898 |
1896
1912 |
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Taylorville | Electric | ? | 1925 | |||
Bluff City Electric Railway[57] | Waukegan | Electric | 1891 | 1947[58] | See the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad in which the Bluff City Electric Railway was a subsidiare.[59] | |
Wheaton, Il | Electric |
Indiana[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Anderson | Horse | ? | 14 Aug 1892 | |||
Electric | ? | 13 Nov 1937 | ||||
Angola | Electric | 1904 | 1918 | |||
Brazil | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Brownstown | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Columbus | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 1892 | 28 Jul 1929 | ||||
Crawfordsville | Electric | ? | 31 Oct 1922 | |||
♦ East Chicago | Electric | 15 May 1893 | 1940 | Also served Whiting. | ||
Elkhart | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 1891
15 May 1894 |
1891
2 Jun 1934 |
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Elwood | Electric | 6 Sep 1893 | 1 Aug 1924 | |||
Evansville | Horse | 1886 | 1894 | |||
Electric | 15 Sep 1892 | 1939 | ||||
Fort Wayne | Horse | 6 Jan 1872 | 9 Aug 1894 | |||
Electric | 7 August 1892 | 27 June 1947 | ||||
French Lick – West Baden Springs | Electric | 9 Nov 1903 | 18 Jul 1919 | |||
Gary | Electric | 20 May 1908 | 1947 | Also served Hobart | ||
Goshen | Electric | 4 Jul 1896 | 1920 | |||
Greencastle | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Hammond | Electric | 15 May 1893 | 1946 | Operated interstate service to Chicago, Illinois. | ||
Huntington | Electric | 1902 | 1910 | |||
Indianapolis | Horse | 3 Oct 1864 | 1894 | |||
Electric | 18 Jun 1890 | 11 Jan 1953 | ||||
♦ Jeffersonville | Electric | 1888 | 1934 | |||
Kokomo | Electric | 15 Dec 1891 | 17 Apr 1932 | |||
La Porte | Electric | 1 Jul 1902 | 1918 | |||
Lafayette | Horse | 1868
1884 |
187_
1889 |
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Electric | 30 Oct 1888 | 14 Mar 1940 | ||||
Logansport | Horse | 1882 | 1896 | |||
Electric | 1 Oct 1891 | 29 Apr 1932 | ||||
Madison | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | 20 Jun 1898 | 30 Jun 1918 | ||||
Marion | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | 1 Aug 1893 | 26 Jun 1947 | ||||
Michigan City | Electric | 189_ | 1932 | |||
Mount Vernon | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Muncie | Steam | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 1 Sep 1892 | 1932 | ||||
New Albany | Electric | 1891 | 21 Jan 1946 | See also Louisville, Kentucky. | ||
New Castle | Electric | ? | 31 Oct 1922 | |||
Peru | Electric | 3 Aug 1901 | 30 Sep 1934 | |||
Richmond | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 6 Sep 1889 | 1938 | ||||
♦ South Bend | Horse | 27 May 1885 | ? | |||
Electric | 15 Jan 1885
1889 |
?
15 Jun 1940 |
Experimental operation in 1882. System also served Mishawaka. | |||
Terre Haute | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 6 Jan 1940 | ||||
Vincennes | Horse | 1881 | ? | |||
Electric | 8 September 1891 | 1 Jul 1938 | ||||
Wabash | Electric | 3 Aug 1901 | 1 Aug 1931 | |||
Warsaw | Electric | ? | 1938 | |||
Washington | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 1894 | 31 Oct 1935 |
Iowa[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Albia | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Petrol (gasoline) | ? | ? | ||||
Electric | 18 Dec 1907 | 1922 | ||||
Ames | Steam | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 1907 | Jul 1929 | ||||
Boone | Horse | 1883 | ? | |||
Electric | 14 Nov 1899 | 19 May 1925 | ||||
Burlington | Horse | 1 Jan 1874 | ? | |||
Electric | 30 May 1891 | 1929 | ||||
♦ Cedar Falls | Electric | 14 Dec 1897 | 18 May 1941 | |||
Cedar Rapids | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | 1891 | 13 Nov 1937 | ||||
Centerville | Horse | 1887 | ? | |||
Electric | 1902 | 25 Apr 1925 | ||||
Charles City | Electric | 1915 | 1921 | |||
Clinton | Horse | 6 Feb 1869 | ? | |||
Electric | 1890 | 25 May 1937 | ||||
♦ Clinton | Electric | Interurban | 1904 | 1940 | Originally the Iowa & Illinois Railway connecting Clinton and Davenport. In 1916 it merged with the Davenport & Muscatine Railway to become the CD&M. | |
Council Bluffs | Horse | 1869 | ? | |||
Electric | Dec 1887 | 15 Sep 1948 | Omaha Traction Company | |||
Davenport | Horse | 2 Mar 1869 | ? | |||
Electric | 6 Aug 1888 | 15 Apr 1940 | Tramway system also served Rock Island and Moline, Illinois. | |||
♦ Davenport | Electric | Interurban | 1904 | 1940 | Originally the Iowa & Illinois Railway connecting Clinton and Davenport. In 1916 it merged with the Davenport & Muscatine Railway to become the CD&M. | |
Des Moines | Horse | 11 Jan 1868 | ? | |||
Electric | 1888 | 6 March 1950 | ||||
Dubuque | Horse | 23 May 1868 | ||||
Electric | 25 Dec 1889 | 4 Jul 1932 | ||||
Fort Dodge | Electric | 1896 | 14 Nov 1925 | |||
Fort Madison | Horse | Jul 1888 | ? | |||
Electric | 1895 | 1929 | ||||
Independence | Electric | 22 Aug 1892 | 14 Aug 1907 | |||
Iowa City | Electric | 1 Nov 1910 | 16 Aug 1930 | |||
Keokuk | Horse | 1883 | ? | |||
Electric | 30 Aug 1890 | 15 May 1928 | ||||
Marshalltown | Horse | 1883 | ? | |||
Electric | 31 Dec 1892 | 31 Aug 1928 | ||||
Mason City | Electric | 1897 | 30 Aug 1936 | |||
Muscatine | Horse | 11 Sep 1883 | ? | |||
Electric | 30 May 1893 | 17 Mar 1929 | ||||
♦ Muscatine | Electric | Interurban | 1912 | 1940 | Originally the Davenport & Muscatine Railway. In 1916 it merged with the Illinois & Iowa Railway, which ran between Clinton and Davenport, to become the CD&M. | |
Oskaloosa | Horse | 1880 | ? | |||
Electric | 1898 | May 1926 | ||||
Ottumwa | Horse | 1881 | ? | |||
Electric | 1889 (?) | 12 Aug 1930 | ||||
Red Oak | Horse | Apr 1882 | 1901 | |||
Sioux City | Horse | 1 Jul 1881
1885 |
?
? |
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Cable | 1 Jun 1889 | 15 May 1894 | ||||
Electric | 6 April 1890 | 1948 | System included interstate tramway to South Sioux City, Nebraska. | |||
Tama – Toledo | Electric | 4 Jul 1894 | 25 Jun 1925 | |||
Waterloo | Horse | 1885 | May 1896 | |||
Electric | 1896 | Aug 1939 | ||||
♦ Waterloo – Cedar Falls | Electric | 1897 | 31 Jul 1958 |
Kansas[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Abilene | Horse | ? | ? | |||
♦ Arkansas City | Horse | 18__ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1922 | ||||
Atchison | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1929 | ||||
Baxter Springs | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Chetopa | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Clay Center | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Coffeyville | Electric | 190_ | 1948 | |||
Cottonwood Falls – Strong City | Horse | 22 Aug 1887 | 29 Jan 1918 | |||
Petrol (gasoline) | 29 Jan 1918 | 27 Jun 1919 | ||||
Council Grove | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Dighton (?) | Horse (?) | ? | ? | See note. | ||
Emporia | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 189_ | 1928 | ||||
Fort Scott | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 189_ | 1918 | ||||
Galena | Electric | ? | ? | See also: Joplin, Missouri. | ||
Garden City | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Great Bend | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Hutchinson | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1925[60] | ||||
Independence | Electric | ? | 1946 | |||
Iola | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Junction City | Electric | 12 Aug 1901 | 28 Feb 1934 | |||
Kansas City | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Cable | 15 Jun 1885 | 13 Oct 1913 | ||||
Electric | ? | 1957[60] | Streetcar system served Kansas City, North Kansas City and Independence, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas. | |||
Kingman | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Larned | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Lawrence | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1933[60] | ||||
Leavenworth | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 189_ | 1925 | ||||
Manhattan City and Interurban Railway Co. | Manhattan | Petrol (gasoline) | ? | ? | ||
Electric | Interurban | 10 Jun 1909 | Oct 1928 | Extended to Fort Riley and Junction City | ||
McPherson | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Newton | Horse | 1886
1910 |
1890
? |
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Electric | 25 Oct 1913 | 1 Nov 1925 | ||||
Ottawa | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Parsons | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Pittsburg | Electric | 20 Oct 1890 | 1932 | See also: Joplin, Missouri. | ||
Pratt | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Salina | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Steam | ? | ? | ||||
Electric | ? | 17 Jul 1937 | ||||
Topeka | Horse | 1881[61] | 1889? | |||
Electric | 1889[61] | 1937[60] | ||||
Wellington | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Wichita | Horse | 188_ | ? | ![]() Horse drawn trolley car, Wichita City Railway Company | ||
Electric | ? | 1933[60] | ||||
Winfield | Horse | 1886 | 17 May 1909 | |||
Electric | ? | 24 May 1926 |
- Peschkes (Part Four, 1998, Page 57) states that, although included in some statistics, the following (horse-drawn) streetcar systems were not built:
- Beloit.
- Dighton. Peschkes states that one source, dated 1888, states that this town had a streetcar line, but no confirmation was found.
- El Dorado.
- Marion. Peschkes states that "there is no more than a rumor" that this town had a horsecar line.
Kentucky[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ohio Valley Electric Railway | Ashland | Electric | Interurban and streetcar | 1899 | 1936 | Besides operating local streetcar service in Ashland the Ohio Valley Electric Railway operated an interurban route between Ashland and Huntington, West Virginia. |
Bowling Green | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 189_ | ? | ||||
Covington | Horse | 1867 | ? | |||
Electric | 1890 | 3 Jul 1950 | Also served Newport and other communities. Operated service across Ohio River to Cincinnati, Ohio. | |||
Frankfort | Electric | ? | 6 Jan 1934 | |||
Georgetown | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 189_ | ? | ||||
Henderson | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 17 Jul 1923 | ||||
Lexington | Horse | 26 Aug 1882 | 4 Sep 1890 | |||
Electric | 24 Aug 1890 | 20 Apr 1938 | ||||
Louisville | Steam | 1838 | 1844 | |||
Horse | 1844 | 1901 | ||||
Electric | 1889 | 30 Apr 1948 | See also New Albany and Jeffersonville, Indiana. | |||
Maysville | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Middlesboro | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Steam | ? | ? | ||||
Owensboro | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1934 | ||||
Paducah | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1932 | ||||
Somerset | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Winchester | Electric | ? | ? |
- Peschkes (Part Four, 1998, Page 59) states that, despite various evidence, the following towns did not have streetcar systems:
- Barbourville – Peschkes describes "a marvellous picture postcard of a horse tramcar in the main street of Barbourville, with a woman driver," dated 1917. Similar picture postcards exist for U.S. towns that did not have horsecar or streetcar systems.
- Mount Sterling.
Louisiana[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Abita Springs | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Alexandria | Horse | 19 Jun 1891 | 19 Jun 1899 | |||
Electric | 12 Apr 1906 | 18 Dec 1926 | ||||
♦ Algiers | Horse | 1884 | 1 Sep 1907 | |||
Electric | 1 Sep 1907 | 22 Jan 1931 | ||||
Baton Rouge | Mule | 16 Oct 1890 | 5 Apr 1893 | Two mule car lines, later connected as a belt line. | ||
Electric | 6 Apr 1893 | 23 Apr 1936 | Three lines at peak in 1924-1932[62] | |||
Burnside | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Grand Isle | Horse | 1866 | 1893 | |||
Lake Charles | Horse | 1891 | ? | |||
Steam | 1893 | 1906 | ||||
Electric | 1 Feb 1906 | 29 Jun 1927 | ||||
Monroe | Electric | 15 Jun 1906 | 21 Aug 1938 | |||
New Orleans | Horse | Jan 1835 | ? | |||
Steam | 26 Jan 1835 | ? | ||||
Electric | 1 Feb 1893 | See Streetcars in New Orleans. Operation suspended 28 Aug 2005 – 18 Dec 2005 because of storm damage (Hurricane Katrina). | ||||
Shreveport | Horse | 31 Dec 1870 | 16 Oct 1893 | |||
Electric | 4 Oct 1890 | 10 Dec 1939 |
Maine[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Augusta, Winthrop and Gardiner Street Railway (in German) | Augusta | Electric | 26 Jul 1889 | 31 Jul 1932 | ||
Bangor | Electric | 29 Apr 1889 | 31 Dec 1945 | |||
Bath | Electric | 189_ | 1932 | |||
Biddeford | Horse | 4 Jul 1888 | 5 May 1892 | Connected Biddeford and Saco. | ||
Electric | ? | 5 Jul 1939 | ||||
Brunswick | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Calais | Electric | 4 Jul 1894 | 31 Oct 1929 | International tramway, connected Calais and St. Stephen (New Brunswick), Canada (q.v.). | ||
Fairfield[63][64] | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Fryeburg Horse Railroad (in German)[65] | Fryeburg | Horse | 18. May 1888 | 1. Oct 1913 | ||
Lewiston | Horse | 3 Sep 1881 | 1896 | Connected Lewiston and Auburn. | ||
Electric | ? | 6 Sep 1941 | ||||
Electric | Portland-Lewiston Interurban[66] | 7 July 1914 | 29 June 1933 | Connected to Portland | ||
The Norway – Paris Street Railway[67] | Norway | Electric | 1895 | 1918 | Connected Norway and South Paris. | |
Portland | Horse | 10 Oct 1863 | 17 Dec 1895 | |||
Electric | 20 Jun 1891 | 4 May 1941 | ||||
Rockland | Electric | 1 Aug 1892 | 1 Apr 1931 | |||
Sanford | Electric | 189_ | 27 Apr 1947 | |||
Waterville | Horse | 23 Jun 1888 | 1892 | |||
Electric | 20 Jul 1892 | 11 Oct 1937 |
Maryland[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Annapolis | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Baltimore (first era) | Horse | 1859 | ? | |||
Cable | 23 May 1891 | 23 Mar 1899 | ||||
Electric | ? | 3 Nov 1963 | ||||
Baltimore Light Rail | Baltimore (second era) | Electric | Light rail | Apr 1992 | ||
– | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Chesapeake Beach | Steam | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | ? | ||||
Petrol (gasoline) | ? | 1921 (?) | ||||
Cumberland and Westernport Electric Railway | Cumberland | Horse | ? | ? | ||
Electric | 189_ | 1932 | ||||
Hagerstown & Frederick Railway | Frederick | Electric | 189_ | 1937 | ||
Hagerstown | Electric | 189_ | 1939 |
Massachusetts[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Attleboro | Horse | 187_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1932 | ||||
MBTA Green Line Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line |
Boston | Horse | 1856 | ? | ||
Electric | Portion (MBTA Green Line) upgraded to light rail in the 1970s | 1889 January 1[68] | See Boston-area streetcar lines. The surviving portions are the Mattapan Line and the MBTA Green Line. See also: Category:Streetcars in the Boston area. | |||
Brockton | Horse | 1881 July 26 | ? | |||
Electric | 1890 Sep 5 | 1937 Jul 11 | ||||
Conway | Horse | 1895 April 1 | 1921 | |||
Fall River | Horse | 1880 | 1891 | |||
Electric | 1892 | 1936 Sep 20 | ||||
Fitchburg | Horse | 1886 July 3 | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1932 | Connected Fitchburg and Leominster. | |||
Framingham | Electric | 188_ | 1925 | |||
Gardner | Electric | 189_ | 1924 | |||
Gloucester | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1919 | ||||
Greenfield | Electric | 189_ | ? | |||
Haverhill | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1936 Aug 29 | ||||
Holyoke Street Railway | Holyoke | Horse | 1884 | 1891 | ||
Electric | Interurban; 1 funicular line |
1891 | 1937 | Included Amherst & Sunderland, Mount Tom, and Hampshire Street Railways; bus service began 1921, became exclusively buses in 1937; served as operator for PVTA from 1977 until 1987 when service ceased, company dissolved 1991.[69] | ||
Lawrence | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1936 Mar | ||||
Lowell & Suburban Street Railway Company | Lowell (first era) |
Horse | 187_ | ? | ||
Electric | ? | 1936 Mar | ||||
Lowell National Historical Park Trolley | Lowell (second era) |
Electric | 1984 | Resurrected as a 1-mile heritage streetcar line, operational; expansion into commuter interurban proposed and discussed 1999-2016.[70][71][72] | ||
Lynn | Horse | 1854 | ? | Lynn and Boston Railroad | ||
Electric | 1888 November 19[73][74] | 1937 | The first electric trolley / streetcar in Massachusetts[75][76] | |||
New Bedford | Horse | 187_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1947 | ||||
Newburyport | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1930 Aug 27 | ||||
Newton | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 193_ | ||||
Northampton | Horse | 186_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1933 | ||||
Oak Bluffs | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Pittsfield | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1932 | ||||
Plymouth and Brockton Street Railway | Plymouth | Horse | 1888 | ? | Has operated since 1928 as a bus carrier. | |
Electric | ? | 1928 | Has operated since 1928 as a bus carrier. | |||
Quincy | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1948 | ||||
Salem | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | ? | ||||
Springfield | Horse | 186_ | ? | |||
Electric | 1890 Jun 6 | 1940 | ||||
Stoneham | Electric | ? | 1946 Jul 27 | |||
Taunton | Horse | 1871 Sep 23 | ? | |||
Electric | 1893 Sep 3 | 1932 Jul | ||||
Waltham | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 193_ | ||||
Worcester | Horse | 186_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1945 Dec 31 |
Michigan[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Adrian | Electric | 1889 | 1924 | |||
Ann Arbor | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 28 Sep 1890 | 31 Jan 1925 | ||||
Battle Creek | Horse | 1865 | ? | |||
Electric | 1887
188_ |
1887
30 Sep 1932 |
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Bay City | Electric | ? | Aug 1921 | |||
Benton Harbor | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 1892 | Sep 1935 | System also served St. Joseph. | |||
Cheboygan | Horse | 1893 | 1898 | |||
1896 | 1898 | |||||
Department of Street Railways (The DSR) 1922-1956[77] | Detroit (first era) | Horse | 3 Aug 1863 | 9 Nov 1895 | ||
Electric | 1 Sep 1886 | 8 Apr 1956[77][78] | See also: Detroit United Railway (1900-1922). Detroit had a heritage streetcar line, 20 Sep 1976–Jun 2003. | |||
QLine | Detroit (second era) | Electric | 12 May 2017 | Reintroduction; see QLine. | ||
Escanaba | Electric | 1892 | 1932 | |||
Fenton | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Flint | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 1900 | 4 Apr 1936 | ||||
Grand Haven | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Grand Rapids | Horse | 1864 | ? | |||
Cable | 18 Apr 1888 | 12 Nov 1891 | ||||
Electric | ? | 1935 | ||||
Holland | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Iron River | Horse | 1913 | 1921 | |||
Ishpeming | Electric | 1893 | 20 Aug 1927 | |||
Jackson | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 19 Sep 1891 | 27 Jun 1936 | ||||
Kalamazoo | Horse | 1885 | ? | |||
Electric | 1893 | 2 Nov 1932 | ||||
Lansing | Horse | 1886 | ? | |||
Electric | 26 Aug 1890 | 15 Apr 1933 | ||||
Manistee | Electric | 1892 | 26 Aug 1921 | |||
Marquette | Electric | 1891 | 19 April 1935 | |||
Menominee | Electric | ? | 1928 | System also served Marinette, Wisconsin. | ||
Monroe | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Mount Clemens | Horse | 1890 | ? | |||
Electric | 1900 | Jan 1930 | ||||
Muskegon | Horse | 25 Nov 1882 | ? | |||
Electric | Apr 1890 | 10 Oct 1929 | ||||
Owosso | Electric | 1911 | 1929 | Connected Owosso and Corunna. | ||
Pontiac | Electric | 1900 | 1932 | |||
Port Huron | Horse | 186_ | ? | |||
Electric | 1886 | 28 Jan 1930 | See also Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. | |||
Saginaw | Horse | 1863 | ? | |||
Electric | 1899 | 9 Oct 1931 | Operation suspended Aug 1921 – 1 Nov 1923 because of dispute between street railway company and local authority. | |||
Sault Ste. Marie | Electric | 1888 | 8 Jul 1931 | See also Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. |
Minnesota[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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Anoka | Horse | 1884
1908 |
1897
1908 |
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Brainerd | Horse | 1887 | 1889 | |||
Electric | 1893 | 2 Jun 1898 | ||||
Breckenridge | Electric | 30 Aug 1910 | 31 Mar 1925 | Interstate streetcar line, connecting Breckenridge with Wahpeton, North Dakota. Ranked as the smallest interstate streetcar system (and one of the smallest urban streetcar systems) in the U.S.[citation needed] | ||
Duluth | Horse | 1882 | 1890 | |||
Electric | 1890 | 9 Sep 1939 | System served Duluth and Superior, Wisconsin. Two funiculars operated in Duluth. The which operated as part of the streetcar system, and the independent Duluth Belt Line Railway | |||
Mesaba Railway Company[79]: 180 | Hibbing | Electric | Interurban | 11 Dec 1921 | 16 Apr 1927 | |
[79]: 179 | International Falls | Electric | 1891 | Oct 1895 | ||
Accumulator (storage battery) | 1913 | 1919 | Occasional reports, described by Wyatt[80] as "unproven," state that accumulator (storage battery) tramcars operated on the railway bridge to Fort Francis, Ontario, Canada. | |||
[79]: 180 | Mankato | Horse | 23 Jul 1886 | 1895 | ||
Electric | 10 May 1908 | 8 Mar 1930 | ||||
Twin City Rapid Transit Company | Minneapolis (first era) | Horse | 2 Sep 1875 | 23 Dec 1889 | ||
Electric | 23 Dec 1889 | 31 Oct 1953 | See also Como-Harriet Streetcar Line (Heritage streetcar). | |||
METRO | Minneapolis (second era) | Electric | Light rail | 26 Jun 2004 | Blue (2004) & Green (2014) lines. | |
Moorhead | Electric | 9 Dec 1912 | 30 Jun 1937 | Operated as part of Fargo, North Dakota, streetcar system. | ||
Granite City Railway | St. Cloud | Horse | 3 Oct 1887 | 1892 | ||
Electric | 30 Jun 1892 | 29 Apr 1936 | ||||
♦ St. Paul | Horse | 15 Jul 1872 | ? | |||
Cable | 21 Jan 1888 | 3 Jun 1898 | ||||
Electric | ? | 18 Jul 1954 | ||||
♦ Stillwater | Electric | 6 Nov 1899
27 Jun 1899 |
1897
10 Sep 1932 |
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Winona | Horse | 25 Dec 1883 | ? | |||
Electric | 22 Jan 1892 | 21 Jul 1938 |
Mississippi[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Biloxi | Electric | 189_ | 1932 | |||
Columbus | Electric | ? | 1920 | |||
Enterprise | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Greenville | Electric | 188_ | 1929 | |||
♦ Gulfport | Electric | 190_ | 1932 | |||
Hattiesburg | Electric | 190_ | ? | |||
Jackson | Mule | 1871 | 1899 | |||
Electric | 1899 | 1935 | ||||
Laurel | Electric | ? | 1934 | |||
Meridian | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | ? | ||||
Natchez | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1928 | ||||
Pascagoula | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Vicksburg | Electric | 189_ | 1935 | |||
Yazoo City | Electric | 1911 | 1918 |
Missouri[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ava – Mansfield | Steam | ? | ? | |||
Petrol (gasoline) | ? | ? | ||||
Cape Girardeau & Jackson Interurban Railway | Cape Girardeau | Horse | 1893 | 1905 | ||
Electric | 1905 | 1934 | ||||
Carrollton | Steam | 1893 | ? | |||
Electric | 30 Aug 1897 | ? | ||||
Carthage | Horse | 17 Oct 1883 | 24 Jan 1885 | |||
Electric | 24 Aug 1895 | 21 Jul 1935 | ||||
♦ Carthage – Carterville | Electric | ? | ? | See also: Joplin (below). | ||
Clinton | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Farmington – Delassus | Electric | ? | ? | |||
♦ Farmington – | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Hannibal | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 188_ | ? | ||||
♦ Independence | Horse | 1886 | ? | |||
Steam | 1886 | ? | ||||
Electric | ? | 1935 | ||||
Jefferson City | Electric | 1911 | 1934 | |||
Joplin | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1935 | ||||
Petrol (gasoline) | ? | ? | ||||
♦ Joplin – Duenweg – Carterville | Electric | ? | ? | |||
♦ Joplin – Galena, Kansas – Baxter Springs, Kansas – Picher, Oklahoma | Electric | ? | ? | |||
♦ – Pittsburg, Kansas | Electric | ? | ? | See also: Pittsburg, Kansas. | ||
♦ Joplin – Webb City | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | ? | ||||
Kansas City (first era) | Horse | Apr 1869 | ? | |||
Steam | ? | ? | ||||
Cable | 15 Jun 1885 | 13 Oct 1913 | ||||
Electric | ? | 23 Jun 1957 | See Streetcars in Kansas City. | |||
KC Streetcar | Kansas City (second era) | Electric | 6 May 2016[81] | Reintroduction; see KC Streetcar. | ||
Lebanon | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Nevada | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | ? | ||||
♦ North Kansas City | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | ? | ||||
St. Joseph | Horse | 186_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1939 | ||||
St. Louis (first era) | Horse | 1859 | ? | |||
Steam | ? | ? | ||||
Cable | 15 Apr 1886 | 14 Mar 1901 | ||||
Electric | ? | 20 Jun 1966 | See Streetcars in St. Louis. | |||
St. Louis MetroLink | St. Louis (second era) | Electric | Light rail | 31 Jul 1993 | Reintroduction, as St. Louis MetroLink light rail. | |
Loop Trolley | 16 Nov 2018 | New heritage tramway | ||||
Sedalia | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 189_ | 1931 | ||||
Springfield Traction Company | Springfield | Horse | ? | 1929 | ||
Steam | ? | ? | ||||
Electric | 1929 | ? | 17 August 1937[82] | |||
Trenton | Electric | ? | ? | |||
♦ Webb City | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | ? | ||||
♦Webb City – Carterville | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | ? |
- Peschkes (Part Four, 1998, Page 80) states that, despite various evidence, the following towns did not have streetcar systems:
- Excelsior Springs.
- Lexington.
Montana[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Anaconda | Electric | 1 Sep 1890 | 31 Dec 1951 | |||
Billings | Horse | 1882 | 1883 | |||
Accumulator (storage battery) | 4 Apr 1912 | 1917 | ||||
Bozeman | Electric | 21 Jul 1892 | 15 Dec 1921 | |||
Butte | Horse | 1886 | ? | |||
Cable | 4 Mar 1889 | 19 Sep 1897 | ||||
Electric | 26 Aug 1890 | 22 Aug 1937 | ||||
Great Falls | Electric | 18 Aug 1891 | 30 Nov 1931 | |||
Horse | 1892 | 1893 | ||||
Helena | Horse | 25 Sep 1886 | ? | |||
Electric | 25 May 1890 | 1 Jan 1928 | ||||
Missoula | Horse | 1897 | ? | |||
Electric | 1892
11 May 1910 |
1897
24 Jan 1932 |
Nebraska[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Beatrice | Electric | 18__ | 1897 | |||
Fremont | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Grand Island | Horse | ? | 1898 | |||
Hastings | Horse | 1887 | ? | |||
Kearney | Electric | 18__ | 1898 | |||
Lincoln | 18__ | 1945 | ||||
Nebraska City | Horse | 1889 | 1910 | |||
Norfolk | Electric | 18__ | 1897 | |||
Omaha Horse Railway Company | Omaha | Horse | 1868 | ? | ||
Omaha Traction Company | Cable | 29 Dec 1887 | 7 Jul 1890 | |||
Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway and Bridge Company | Electric | ? | 1955 | |||
Plattsmouth | Electric | 18__ | 1892 | |||
Red Cloud | Horse | 1887 | 1910 | |||
Wymore | Horse | ? | ? | |||
York | Horse | ? | ? |
Nevada[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Reno | Electric | Nov 1904[83] | Sep 1927[83] | See Streetcars in Reno. |
New Hampshire[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Berlin | Electric | 4 Jul 1902 | 1 Dec 1928 | |||
Claremont | Electric | 190_ | 1918 | |||
Concord | Horse | 1881 | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 29 Apr 1933 | ||||
Dover | Horse | 1882 | ? | |||
Electric | 16 Aug 1889 | 15 Sep 1926 | ||||
Exeter | Electric | 189_ | 1924 | |||
Keene | Electric | 190_ | ? | |||
Laconia | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1926 | ||||
Manchester | Horse | 1877 | ? | |||
Electric | 1895 | 2 May 1940 | ||||
Nashua | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1932 | ||||
Portsmouth | Electric | 189_ | 1925 | |||
Rochester | Electric | 1 Sep 1889 | 6 May 1925 |
New Jersey[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Asbury Park | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 19 Sep 1897 | 1931 | ||||
Atlantic City | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 27 Dec 1955 | see also Shore Fast Line. | |||
Beach Haven | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Bridgeton and Millville Traction Company | Bridgeton | Electric | ? | ? | see also Millville and Vineland. | |
Brigantine | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Camden (first era) | Horse | 1871 | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1935 | Also served Gloucester City and other neighboring towns. | |||
♦ Camden-Trenton | Electric | 190_ | 1931 | |||
River Line (New Jersey Transit) | Camden (second era) | Diesel | Light rail | 14 Mar 2004 | ||
Cape May | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Steam | ?
1916 |
1892
1918 |
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Electric | 1892 | 1913 | ||||
Accumulator (storage battery) | 1916 | 1916 | ||||
Elizabeth | Horse | 1869 | ? | |||
Coal Gas | ? | ? | Coal gas is also known as Town gas and is not the same as petrol (gasoline). | |||
Electric | ? | 18 Feb 1931 | Newark – Elizabeth tramway line closed 3 Jan 1937. | |||
Fort Lee | Public Service Coordinated Transport (Bergen Division) and predecessors | 1435 | electric | 20 Apr 1896 | 5 Sep 1938 | |
Gibbsboro – | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Steam | ? | ? | ||||
Hackensack | Electric | ? | 1938 | |||
Hudson County (first era) | Horse | 1860 | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 7 Aug 1949 | Date refers to abandonment of the last lines using the Hoboken Inclined Elevated viaduct. | |||
Hudson–Bergen Light Rail | Hudson County (second era) | Electric | Light rail | 22 Apr 2000 | ||
Keansburg | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Keyport | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 189_ | 1923 | ||||
Long Branch | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | ? | ||||
Metuchen | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Millville Traction Company | Millville | Electric | ? | ? | see also Bridgeton. | |
Morristown | Electric | ? | 1927 | |||
Mount Holly | Horse | ? | ? | |||
New Brunswick | Horse | 1867 | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1 Aug 1931 | Suburban tramway line closed 26 Oct 1931. | |||
Newark | Horse | 1859 | 1893 | |||
Cable | Line built and tested, but not placed in service because of technical problems. | |||||
Electric | Light rail (modern era) | Oct 1890
(26 May 1935) |
See Note. | See: Newark Light Rail (aka. Newark City Subway). See also: Note, below. | ||
Ocean City | Electric | ? | ? | see also Atlantic City | ||
Ortley Beach | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Passaic | Electric | ? | ? | Newark – Passaic tramway closed 20 Mar 1937. | ||
Paterson | Horse | 1863 | ? | |||
Steam | ? | ? | ||||
Coal Gas | ? | ? | Coal gas is also known as Town gas and is not the same as petrol (gasoline). | |||
Accumulator (storage battery) | ? | ? | ||||
Electric | ? | 1 May 1928 | Newark – Paterson tramway line closed 1938. | |||
Phillipsburg | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 1894 | 31 Oct 1931 | See also Easton, Pennsylvania. | |||
Plainfield | Electric | 1901 | 1925 | Newark – Plainfield tramway line closed 15 Sep 1935. | ||
Point Pleasant | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1919 | ||||
Red Bank | Electric | 1896 | 1921 | |||
Rutherford | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 1896 | 1921 | ||||
Sea Isle City | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Stone Harbor – Cape May Court House | Steam | ? | ? | |||
Petrol (gasoline) | ? | ? | ||||
Trenton (first era) | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 6 Dec 1934 | ||||
River Line (New Jersey Transit) | Trenton (second era) | Diesel | Light rail | 14 Mar 2004 | ||
Vineland | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Wildwood | Electric | ? | 1946 |
- Note for Newark: The streetcar subway, the Newark City Subway, opened 26 May 1935. Also served East Orange and other neighboring towns. (See also Public Service Railway and Newark-Trenton Fast Line.) Last Newark streecar line not using the subway closed 1 May 1938. Last surface streetcar lines using the subway closed 30 Mar 1952. Since then, effectively operated as a "light rail" line; line extended in 2002. System expanded to include a second line in 2006.
New Mexico[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Albuquerque | Horse | 1880 | 1904 | |||
Electric | Sep (?) 1904 | 31 Dec 1927 | Reintroduction planned. | |||
Las Vegas | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1928 |
New York[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
United Traction Co. | ♦ Albany | Horse | 22 Feb 1864 | 1921 | ||
Electric | 1890 | 1 Aug 1946 | ||||
♦♦ Albia – Averill Park | Electric | 5 Oct 1895 | 31 Mar 1925 | Albia is a former suburb and current neighborhood of Troy, New York | ||
Amsterdam | Horse | 4 Jul 1873 | ? | |||
Electric | 20 Dec 1890 | 1 Sep 1936 | ||||
Auburn | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Babylon Rail Road Company | ♦ Babylon | Horse | 1871 | 1909 | ||
Electric | 1909 | 15 May 1920 | ||||
♦♦ Babylon – Amityville | Electric | 1909 | 15 May 1920 | |||
Batavia | Electric | Sep 1903 | 13 Jun 1927 | |||
Beacon | Electric | 27 Aug 1892 | 20 Apr 1930 | Connected Beacon and Fishkill | ||
Binghamton | Horse | 1873 | 1893 | |||
Electric | 31 May 1887 | 1 Aug 1932 | ||||
♦ Binghamton – Port Dickinson – Johnson City | Horse | 1 Jan 1883 (?) | 1 Jul 1892 | |||
Electric | 1892 | 1 Aug 1932 | ||||
♦ Bronx | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 1892 | 21 Aug 1948 | ||||
♦ Brooklyn | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 1890 | 30 Oct 1956 | ||||
Buffalo (first era) | Horse | 11 Jun 1860 | 1893 | |||
Electric | 20 Jun 1889 | 1 Jul 1950 | ||||
♦ Buffalo – Depew | Electric | 8 May 1901 | 23 Sep 1926 | |||
♦ Buffalo – Gardenville – Ebenezer | Electric | 18 Apr 1896 | 12 Dec 1931 | |||
♦ Buffalo – Hamburg | Electric | 6 Oct 1900 | 12 Dec 1931 | |||
♦ Buffalo – Williamsville | Electric | 5 April 1893 | 18 September 1930 | |||
Buffalo Metro Rail | Buffalo (second era) | Electric | Light rail | 9 Oct 1984[84] | ||
Canandaigua | Horse | 6 Sep 1887 | Jul 1892 | |||
Electric | 4 Aug 1894 | 31 Jul 1930 | ||||
Catskill | Electric | 14 Dec 1900 | by 31 Oct 1917 | |||
♦ Charlotte – | Electric | 1 Jun 1891 | 25 Aug 1925 | |||
Pelham Park and City Island Railway | ♦♦ City Island | Horse | 20 May 1887 | 1914 | ||
Accumulator (storage battery) | 17 Aug 1914 | 9 Aug 1919 | ||||
♦ Cohoes | Horse | 1864 | ? | |||
Electric | 1890 | 6 Feb 1934 | ||||
Corning | Electric | 1 Nov 1895 | 1 Apr 1930 | |||
Cortland | Horse | 14 Sep 1885 | ? | |||
Electric | 1 Apr 1895 | 1928 | ||||
♦ Cortland – Homer – McGraw – Preble | Horse | 14 Sep 1885 | ? | Connected Cortland and Homer. | ||
Electric | 1 Apr 1895 | 15 Feb 1931 | ||||
Dunkirk | Electric | 1 Jul 1900
1917 |
1917
by Aug 1923 |
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♦ Dunkirk – Fredonia | Horse | Sep 1866 | 1891 | |||
Electric | 30 Oct 1891 | 25 Mar 1934 | ||||
Northport Traction Company | ♦ East Northport - Northport | Electric | 18 Apr 1902 | 19 Aug 1924 | ||
Elmira | Horse | Oct 1871 | ? | |||
Steam | 23 Jul 1889 | ? | ||||
Electric | 30 Aug 1890 | 11 Mar 1939 | ||||
Ocean Electric Railway (originally Far Rockaway Railroad) |
♦♦ Far Rockaway | Horse | 2 Jul 1886 | 1898 | ||
Electric | 1898 | 24 Sep 1924 | ||||
Fonda – Fultonville | Horse | 1875 | 11 Jul 1884 | |||
Frankfort – Ilion – Mohawk – Herkimer | Horse | 4 Jul 1871 | 1895 (?) | |||
Electric | 1895 (?) | 30 Jun 1933 | ||||
♦ Fredonia | Electric | 15 May 1910 | Jul 1927 | |||
Seashore Municipal Railroad | ♦ Freeport | Electric | 1906 | 1924 | ||
Fulton | Horse | 15 Aug 1886 | by 1908 | |||
Electric | ? | 15 Sep 1927 | ||||
Geneva | Electric | 27 Mar 1895 | 1925 | |||
♦ Geneva – Waterloo – Seneca Falls – Cayuga | Steam | 1886 | ? | |||
Electric | 13 Jul 1890 | 6 Dec 1928 | Opened in stages, completed 27 Mar 1895. | |||
Glens Falls | Horse | 28 Sep 1885 | ? | |||
Electric | 1891 | 30 Jun 1928 | ||||
Fonda, Johnstown and Gloversville Railroad | Gloversville | Electric | ? | ? | ||
♦ Gloversville – Mountain Lake | Electric | 23 Aug 1901 | 30 Sep 1917 | |||
♦ Highland – New Paltz | Electric | 17 Aug 1897 | 7 Jul 1925 | |||
Hornell | Electric | 6 Aug 1892 | 15 Jul 1926 | |||
♦ Hornell – Canisteo | Electric | 30 Dec 1892 | 15 Jul 1926 | |||
Huntington Railroad | ♦ Huntington | Horse | 19 Jul 1890 | 1898 | Replaced by Huntington Traction Company (1920-1927) | |
Electric | 17 Jun 1898 | 15 Aug 1927 | ||||
♦♦ Huntington – Amityville | Electric | 26 Aug 1909 | 23 Sep 1919 | |||
Ithaca | Electric | 2 Jan 1888
28 Jan 1893 |
May 1892
22 Jun 1935 |
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Jamestown | Horse | 20 Jun 1884 | 1892 (?) | |||
Electric | 11 Jun 1891 | 29 Jan 1938 | ||||
Fonda, Johnstown and Gloversville Railroad | Johnstown | Electric | ? | ? | ||
Kingston City; Colonial City | ♦ Kingston | Horse | 1867 | ? | ||
Electric | 1894 | 30 Sep 1930 | Merged to Kingston Consolidated Railway Co. | |||
♦ Larchmont | Horse | 1 May 1888 | ? | |||
Electric | 10 Jun 1900 | 16 Aug 1927 | ||||
Lima – Honeoye | Electric | 8 Aug 1899 | by 30 Oct 1915 | |||
Lockport | Horse | 1 Jan 1887 | 1891 | |||
Electric | 20 Aug 1895 | 16 Apr 1938 | ||||
Long Beach Railway | ♦ Long Beach | Petrol (gasoline) | 20 Oct 1923 | 1926 | ||
Long Island | See also the entries for New York City. | |||||
♦ Manhattan | Horse | 14 Nov 1832 | 1917 | |||
Cable | 31 Aug 1885 | 25 May 1901 | ||||
Accumulator (storage battery) | 1910 | 1932 | ||||
Electric | ? | 21 Jun 1947 | Last tramway line in New York, which operated on the Queensboro Bridge between Manhattan and Queens, closed 7 Apr 1957. | |||
Middletown | Electric | 8 May 1894 | 9 Apr 1924 | |||
♦ Middletown- Goshen | Electric | 25 Nov 1895 | 21 Oct 1924 | |||
♦ Mount Vernon | Electric | ? | 1950 | |||
♦ New Rochelle | Electric | ? | 1950 | |||
New York City | See also Long Island and Westchester County. | |||||
Newburgh | Horse | 24 Dec 1886 | May 1894 | |||
Electric | 9 Jun 1894 | 31 Mar 1923 | ||||
♦ Newburgh – Orange Lake – Walden | Electric | July 1894 | 1923 | See note. | ||
♦ Niagara Falls | Horse | 2 Jul 1883 | ? | |||
Electric | July 1892 | 22 Aug 1937 | ||||
Ogdensburg | Horse | 14 Aug 1886 | 1895 | |||
Electric | 1 Sep 1895 | 1 Apr 1932 | ||||
Oneida | Horse | 4 Jul 1885 | 30 Jul 1902 | |||
Electric | 14 Dec 1902 | Dec 1930 | ||||
Oneonta | Electric | ? | ? | |||
♦ Ossining | Electric | 1893
1 Oct 1907 |
20 Oct 1906
7 May 1926 |
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Oswego | Horse | 22 Aug 1885 | 1892 | |||
Electric | 1892 | 21 Apr 1927 | ||||
Suffolk Traction Company | ♦ Patchogue | Accumulator (storage battery) | 1 Jul 1911 | 10 Oct 1919 | ||
♦ Patchogue – Holtsville | Accumulator (storage battery) | 1914 | 10 Oct 1919 | Extension Holtsville – Port Jefferson started, not completed. | ||
♦♦ Patchogue – Sayville | Accumulator (storage battery) | by 1914 | 10 Oct 1919 | |||
♦ Peekskill | Electric | Jun 1899 | 30 Jun 1926. | |||
♦♦ Peekskill – Lake Mohegan | Electric | 30 Jul 1899 | 1924 | |||
♦♦ Peekskill – | Electric | 25 Mar 1907 | 29 Aug 1925 | Opened in stages, completed 1909. | ||
♦♦ Peekskill – Verplanck | Electric | 1902 | 30 Jun 1926 | |||
Penn Yan – Branchport | Electric | 15 Aug 1897
1 Jan 1927 |
11 Oct 1926
13 Mar 1927 |
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Plattsburgh | Electric | 25 Jul 1896 | 1 Nov 1929 | |||
Larchmont Horse Railway | ♦ Port Chester | Horse | 1888 | 1901 | ||
Port Chester Street Railway | Electric | 12 Jul 1898 | 16 Aug 1927. | Acquired by New York and Stamford Railway in 1901 | ||
Port Jervis | Electric | 15 Jan 1898
4 Jul 1910 |
9 Jun 1910
15 Nov 1924 |
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Poughkeepsie | Horse | 1871 | 1894 | |||
Electric | 15 Dec 1894 | 25 Nov 1935 | ||||
♦ Poughkeepsie – Wappingers Falls | Electric | 1895 | Nov 1928 | |||
♦ Queens | Horse | 1869 | ? | |||
Electric | 1887 | 26 Apr 1950 | ||||
Redwood – Alexandria Bay | Electric | 18 Aug 1902 | 16 Oct 1916 | |||
♦ Rensselaer | Electric | 4 Nov 1897 | 193_ | |||
Rochester | Horse | 13 Jul 1863 | 1893 | |||
Electric | 1889 | 1 Apr 1941 | ||||
Ocean Electric Railway (originally Rockaway Village Railroad) |
♦♦ Rockaway Park | Horse | 2 Jun 1886
1897 |
1895
1898 |
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Electric | 1898 | 26 Aug 1928 | See note. | |||
Rome | Horse | 4 Jul 1887
1 Jul 1902 |
1900
1903 |
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Compressed-air | 22 Sep 1900 | 30 Jun 1902 | System returned to horse-drawn after 1902 until electric. | |||
Electric | 9 Jun 1903 | 7 Dec 1930 | ||||
Saratoga Springs | Electric | 30 Jun 1892 | 20 Jan 1926 | Brief periods of operation in 1890 and 1891. | ||
Schenectady Railway Co. | ♦ Schenectady | Horse | ? | ? | ||
Electric | ? | 1946 | ||||
Nassau County Railway | ♦ Sea Cliff | Electric | 2 Jul 1902 | 31 Dec 1924 | a.k.a.; Sea Cliff Village Trolley | |
Glen Cove Railroad | ♦♦ Sea Cliff – Glen Cove | Electric | 16 Nov 1905 | 15 Nov 1924 | ||
♦ Staten Island | Horse | Sep 1868 | 1896 | |||
Electric | 1893 | 26 Jan 1934 | ||||
South Shore Traction Company | ♦ Sayville – Blue Point | Horse | 1903 | 1909 | ||
Accumulator (storage battery) | 1909 | Jan 1913 | Acquired by Suffolk Traction Company | |||
Suffolk Traction Company | Accumulator (storage battery) | Jan 1913 | 10 Oct 1919 | |||
Syracuse | Horse | 11 May 1860 | ? | |||
Electric | 29 Nov 1888 | 4 Jan 1941 | ||||
♦ Syracuse – | Electric | 16 Jun 1898 | 24 Oct 1931 | |||
♦ Troy | Horse | Sep 1861 | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 26 Sep 1933 | ||||
Utica | Horse | 14 Sep 1863 | ? | |||
Electric | 1890 | 13 May 1941 | ||||
Watertown | Electric | 20 May 1891 | 17 Aug 1937 | |||
♦ Watertown – – Dexter | Electric | 30 Jun 1891 | 9 Mar 1931 | |||
Waverly | Electric | 30 Jun 1896 | 11 Jun 1930 | |||
♦ Waverly – Sayre, PA – Athens, PA | Electric | 30 Jun 1896 | 11 Jun 1930 | |||
Westchester County | See also the entries for New York City. | |||||
♦ White Plains | Electric | 1 Oct 1895 | 16 Nov 1929 | |||
Yonkers Railroad Company | ♦ Yonkers | Horse | Mar 1887 | 1892 | ||
Electric | May 1892 | Nov 1952 |
- Note for Cortland – Homer – McGraw – Preble: Horse tramway connected Cortland and Homer. Electric tramway, opened 1 Apr 1895, connected Cortland, Homer and McGraw. Extended to Preble in 1907. McGraw Preble segment closed 1 Apr 1929. Remainder closed 15 Feb 1931.
- Note for Newburgh – Orange Lake – Walden: Opened in stages, to Orange Lake in July 1894, completed 1 Jun 1895. Newburgh – Orange Lake operated during summer season, 1924 and 1925, petrol (gasoline) traction (?).
- Note for New York – City Island: Experimental monorail operated Bartow railway station – north end of City Island bridge, 15 Jul – 19 Jul 1910, and 14 Nov 1910 – 16 Mar 1914.
- Note for New York – Rockaway Park: Tramcars operated over electrified Long Island Rail Road tracks between Far Rockaway and Hammels, 1905 – 9 Sep 1926, using overhead current collection to 1912 and third-rail current collection thereafter.
North Carolina[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Asheville | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 1 Feb 1889 | 1934 | ||||
Belmont | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Burlington | Electric | 1912 | 1922 | Connected Burlington and Haw River. | ||
Charlotte (first era) | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Accumulator (storage battery) | ? | ? | ||||
Electric | 18 May 1891 | 14 Mar 1938 | ||||
Charlotte Trolley | Charlotte (second era) | Electric | 30 Aug 1996 | 28 Jun 2010 | Heritage streetcar service opened in 1996, though with only limited days and hours, but ended in 2010. | |
Lynx | Electric | Light rail | 24 Nov 2007 | |||
CityLynx Gold Line | Electric | 14 Jul 2015 | Planned to be a modern-streetcar service, but is initially, temporarily operated by the replica-vintage cars formerly used on the Charlotte Trolley heritage service | |||
Concord | Horse | ? | ||||
Steam | ca. 1889 | ? | ||||
Accumulator (storage battery) | 1911 | ? | ||||
Electric | 1923 | ca. 1929 | ||||
Durham | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 1902 | 1934 | ||||
Fayetteville | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Steam | ca. 1908 | 1909 | ||||
Petrol (gasoline) | ? | ? | ||||
Electric | ? | ? | ||||
Gastonia | Electric | ? | 21 Sep 1948 | |||
Goldsboro | Electric | 1910
1915 |
1912
ca. 1920 |
|||
Greensboro | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 11 Jun 1902 | 1934 | ||||
Hendersonville | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Steam | ? | ? | ||||
Petrol (gasoline) | ? | ? | ||||
Electric | 1911 | ca. 1920 | ||||
High Point | Accumulator (storage battery) | 1906 (?) | ? | |||
Electric | 1912 | 1935 | ||||
New Bern | Accumulator (storage battery) | 1913 | ? | |||
Electric | ca. 1913 | 1929 | ||||
Pinehurst | Electric | 1896 | 1907 | |||
Raleigh | Horse | 25 Dec 1886 | ? | |||
Electric | 1 Sep 1891 | 1934 | ||||
Salisbury | Electric | 1905 | 1938 | |||
Wilmington | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 1892 | 18 Apr 1939 | ||||
♦ Wilmington – Wrightsville Beach | Steam | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 190_ | 1939 | ||||
Winston-Salem | Electric | 14 July 1890 | 1936 |
North Dakota[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bismarck | Electric | 16 Feb 1904 | 28 Feb 1931 | Only US town tramway owned by a (federal) state authority. | ||
Fargo | Horse | 1879
7 July 1882 |
1879
18 Sep 1882 |
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Electric | 16 Feb 1904 | 21 Aug 1937 | Tramway system also served Moorhead, MN. | |||
Grand Forks | Electric | 20 Nov 1904 | 1 Feb 1934 | System included an interstate line to East Grand Forks, Minnesota. | ||
Valley City Street & Interurban Railway | Valley City | Electric | 18 Dec 1905 | 194_ | ||
Wahpeton | See Breckenridge, MN. |
Ohio[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Akron Street Railway Co. | Akron | Horse | 18 Aug 1883 | ? | ||
Electric | 2 Oct 1888 | 26 Mar 1947 | ||||
Alliance | Electric | 1888 | 15 Jul 1939 | |||
Ashtabula | Horse | 1883 | ? | |||
Electric | 9 Apr 1892 | 30 Jan 1939 | ||||
Bellaire | Horse | 16 Oct 1865 | ? | |||
Bellefontaine | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Berea | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Cambridge | Electric | 190_ | 1929 | |||
Canton | Horse | 1884 | ? | |||
Electric | Mar 1890 | 18 Apr 1931 | ||||
Chillicothe | Electric | 189_ | 1930 | |||
Cincinnati Street Railway | Cincinnati (first era) | Horse | 1859 | 1904 | ||
Cable | 8 Jul 1885 | 19 Jul 1902 | ||||
Steam | 1866 | 1897 | Mt. Lookout dummy. | |||
Electric | 1889 | 29 Apr 1951[85] | See Streetcars in Cincinnati, and in this list see also Covington, Kentucky. | |||
Cincinnati Bell Connector | Cincinnati (second era) | Electric | 9 Sep 2016[86] | |||
Cleveland | Horse | 1860 | 1901 | |||
Cable | 17 Dec 1890 | 28 Jan 1901 | ||||
Electric | Interurban (Light rail) | ? | See Streetcars in Cleveland. Last in-street trolley/tram lines closed in 1954, but Shaker light rail lines survived (see Blue and Green Lines). | |||
Columbus | Horse | 1863 | 1892 | |||
Electric | 1891 | 5 Sep 1948 | ||||
Conneaut | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Coshocton | Electric | ? | 1927 | |||
Dayton | Horse | 1870 | 1895 | |||
Accumulator (storage battery) | May 1893 | ? | ||||
Steam | 1872 | 1886 | ||||
Electric | 1888 | 1947. | See Note. | |||
Defiance | Electric | 12 Dec 1891 | 1913 | |||
Delaware | Electric | 189_ | 19 Aug 1926 | |||
East Liverpool | Electric | 1892 | Apr 1939 | |||
Elyria | Electric | 189_ | 1931 | |||
Findlay | Horse | 1887 | 1894 | |||
Electric | 1891 | 31 Jan 1932 | ||||
Fremont | Electric | 190_ | 1932 | |||
Gallipolis | Electric | 189_ | 1932 | |||
Hamilton | Electric | 1890 | 1933 | |||
Ohio Valley Electric Railway | Ironton | Electric | ? | 1930 | ||
Lancaster | Electric | 189_ | 30 Oct 1937 | |||
Lima | Electric | 19 Jul 1886
189_ |
?
13 May 1939 |
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Lorain | Electric | 189_ | 7 May 1938 | |||
Mansfield | Electric | 7 Aug 1887 | 6 Jun 1937 | |||
Marietta | Horse | 1888 | ? | |||
Electric | 1896 | 1934 | ||||
Marion | Electric | 189_ | 1933 | |||
Massillon | Electric | 1892 | 2 Jun 1929 | |||
Middletown | Horse | 1879 | 4 May 1918 | Replaced by motorbus. | ||
Mount Vernon | Electric | 189_ | 1917 | |||
New Philadelphia – Dover | Electric | 4 Jul 1889 | 26 Jan 1926 | |||
Newark | Electric | 189_ | 10 Aug 1926 | |||
Niles | Electric | 1894 | 1927 | |||
Norwalk | Electric | ? | 14 May 1938 | |||
Painesville | Electric | 1893 | 1926 | |||
Piqua | Electric | 189_ | ? | |||
Pomeroy | Electric | Nov 1900 | 1929 | |||
Portsmouth | Electric | 189_ | 1939 | |||
Put-in-Bay | Electric | 1891
1913 |
1910
1914 |
Brief period of operation in 1915, to 30 Jun 1915. | ||
Salem | Electric | 23 May 1890 | 9 Dec 1911 | |||
Sandusky | Horse | 3 Aug 1883 | ? | |||
Electric | 27 Nov 1890 | 25 May 1938 | ||||
Springfield | Electric | 1891 | 9 Dec 1932 | Town tramway service on interurban line, Dec 1929 – 3 Jun 1938. | ||
Steubenville | Electric | 1888 | Dec 1938 | |||
Tiffin | Electric | 189_ | 1919 | |||
Toledo | Horse | 1860 | 1890 | |||
Electric | 1890 | 31 Dec 1949 | ||||
Toronto | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Uhrichsville – Dennison | Electric | 1901 | Jan 1922 | |||
Warren | Electric | 1894 | 1931 | |||
Youngstown | Horse | 1873 | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 8 Dec 1940 | See also Sharon, Pennsylvania. | |||
Zanesville | Horse | 13 Nov 1875 | ? | |||
Electric | 27 Dec 1890 | 31 Dec 1930 |
- Note for Dayton: Town streetcar services were provided by a single undertaking in most U.S. towns. Such undertakings were often organized by consolidation ("unification") of predecessor undertakings. In most cases, such consolidations were completed before the First World War. Dayton was a notable exception. In this town, five undertakings operated town streetcar services from 1909 to 1933. Conversions to trolleybus began in 1933; remarkably, all five undertakings operated trolleybuses for several months in 1940, before the beginning of consolidations. See Trolleybuses in Dayton for further information.
Oklahoma[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ardmore | Electric | Jan 1906 | 1922 | |||
Bartlesville | Electric | 14 Jul 1908 | 15 Jul 1920 | |||
Chickasha | Electric | 12 Jul 1910 | 14 Aug 1927 | |||
Clinton | Petrol (gasoline) | Jun 1909 | 1911 | |||
Electric | 1912 | 27 Aug 1914 | ||||
♦ El Reno | Petrol (gasoline) | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 1908 | 192_ | ||||
El Reno Heritage Express | El Reno | Propane | August 25, 2001[87] | Heritage streetcar | ||
Enid City Railway | Enid | Electric | 1907 | 1929 | ||
Lawton | Electric | 11 Jul 1914 | 11 Nov 1927 | |||
McAlester | Electric | 15 Sep 1903 | 1932 | |||
♦ McAlester – Hartshorne | Electric | 15 Sep 1903 | 27 Apr 1947 | |||
[88] | Muskogee | Electric | 15 May 1905 | 9 Mar 1933 | ||
Oklahoma City (first era) | Electric | 7 Feb 1903 | 13 Apr 1947 | |||
♦ Guthrie | Electric | 26 May 1905 | 193_ | |||
Shawnee | Electric | 1903 | 9 Jan 1927 | |||
♦ Oklahoma City – El Reno | Electric | Interurban | 3 Dec 1911 | 9 Nov 1946 | ||
♦ Oklahoma City – Guthrie | Electric | Interurban | 20 Jul 1916 | 9 Nov 1946 | ||
♦ Oklahoma City – Norman | Electric | Interurban | 1913 (?) | Oct 1947 | ||
Oklahoma City Streetcar | Oklahoma City (second era) | Electric | 14 Dec 2018[89] | Reintroduction; see Oklahoma City Streetcar. | ||
Okmulgee | Electric | 20 Nov 1911 | 1919 | |||
♦ Sapulpa | Electric | 1910 | 193_ | |||
Tulsa | Mule | 27 May 1907 | Jul 1907 | |||
Electric | Jul 1907 | 5 Feb 1936 | ||||
♦ Tulsa – Sand Springs | Electric | 1911 | 2 Jan 1955 | |||
♦ Tulsa – Sapulpa | Electric | Mar 1908 | 1933 |
Oregon[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Albany | Steam | 1889 (?) | ? | May have started as late as 1892.[90] | ||
Horse | 30 Aug 1889[91] | 1909 | ||||
Electric | 1909 | 1918[91] | ||||
Astoria | Horse | 9 May 1888[92] | 1892 | |||
Electric | 1892[92] | Jun 1924[92] | Seasonal heritage streetcar line, the Astoria Riverfront Trolley, started 1999. | |||
Baker | Horse | 4 Jun 1890[93] | ? | |||
Corvallis | Horse | 19 Jun 1890[94] | c. 1898–99[94] | |||
Eugene Street Railway[95] | Eugene | Horse | 26 Jun 1891 | 1903 | Mule-drawn.[90] | |
Electric | 26 Sep 1907 | 15 Oct 1927 | Renamed "Portland, Eugene and Eastern" 1907-1915[95] | |||
Forest Grove | Electric | c. 1906[96] | 1911[96] | |||
Klamath Falls | Horse | 4 Jul 1907[97] | May 1911[97] | |||
Medford | Electric | 1914[98] | 1920[98] | First streetcar was delivered on 16 March 1914. | ||
Portland (first era) | Horse | ca. Dec 1872 | 1896[99] | First test run on 7 Dec 1872.[100] | ||
Cable | 22 Feb 1890 | Aug 1904[99] | ||||
Electric | 1 Nov 1889[101] | 26 Feb 1950[102][103] | ||||
♦ Portland – Oregon City, Portland – Bellrose | Electric | Interurban | 16 Feb 1893 | 25 Jan 1958 | Opening date is for Oregon City line; closure date is same for both. | |
♦ Portland – Vancouver, Washington | Electric | 1917 | 1940 | |||
MAX Light Rail | Portland (second era) | Electric | Light rail | 5 Sep 1986 | Reintroduction, as MAX Light Rail. | |
Portland Streetcar | 20 Jul 2001 | Modern-streetcar system. | ||||
Salem | Horse | 15 Jan 1889[90] | ? | |||
Electric | 27 May 1890[104] | 4 Aug 1927[90][104] | ||||
Union | Steam | 1895[105] | ? |
Pennsylvania[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gettysburg Electric Railway | Adams County | Electric | Jul 1893 | Jun 1917[citation needed] | ||
Aliquippa | Electric | 191_ | 1937 | See also Beaver Falls. | ||
Allentown | Horse | 21 May 1868 | 17 Apr 1891 | Lehigh Valley Transit Co. | ||
Electric | 1 Jul 1891 | 18 Jun 1953 | ||||
Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway | Altoona | Horse | 188_ | ? | ||
Electric | ? | 1954 | ||||
Bangor | Electric | 190_ | 1933 | |||
♦ Bethlehem | Electric | ? | 18 Jun 1953 | |||
Beaver Falls – New Brighton | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1937 | See also Aliquippa. | |||
Berwick | Electric | 191_ | 1924 | |||
Bloomsburg | Electric | 190_ | 1926 | |||
Bradford | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1927 | ||||
Butler | Electric | 190_ | 1941 | |||
Scranton Railway Company | Carbondale | Electric | ? | ? | ||
Carlisle | Electric | 190_ | 1938 | |||
Chambersburg | Electric | 190_ | 1928 | |||
♦ Charleroi | Electric | ? | 1953 | |||
♦ Chester | Horse | 1 Feb 1883 | 1 Apr 1893 | |||
Electric | 10 Dec 1892 | 1934 | ||||
♦ Clairton | Electric | ? | ? | |||
West Penn Railways, Coke Division: | ♦ Connellsville | Electric | 1891 | 1952 | ||
Corry | Electric | 1906 | 27 Aug 1923 | |||
Danville | Electric | 190_ | 1924 | |||
♦ Donora | Electric | 15 Dec 1901 | 5 May 1953 | |||
DuBois | Electric | 189_ | 1926 | See also Punxsutawney. | ||
Easton | Horse | 20 Jun 1889 | 10 Dec 1892 | |||
Electric | 1892 | 5 Nov 1939 | See also Phillipsburg, New Jersey. | |||
Erie | Horse | 1867 | ? | |||
Electric | 25 Jun 1889 | 11 May 1935 | ||||
Springs Horse Railroad | Gettysburg | Horse | ||||
Greensburg | Electric | 1889 | 3 Jan 1937 | Interurban (West Penn Railways, Coke Division) service continued to 1952. | ||
Hanover | Electric | 1893 | 1931 | See also York. | ||
Harrisburg | Horse | 4 Jul 1865 | 1892 | |||
Electric | 20 Jul 1889 | 16 Jul 1939 | ||||
Hazleton | Electric | 189_ | 1932 | |||
Hershey | Electric | 15 Oct 1904 | 21 Dec 1946 | |||
Huntingdon | Electric | ? | 20 Jul 1926 | |||
Indiana | Electric | 190_ | 1934 | |||
Jersey Shore | Electric | 1903 | ? | |||
Jim Thorpe | Electric | ? | 1931 | |||
Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway | Jim Thorpe (formerly Mauch Chunk) | Gravity | ||||
Johnstown Traction Company | Johnstown | Horse | 188_ | ? | ||
Electric | ? | 11 Jun 1960[106] | ||||
Kittanning – Ford City | Electric | Aug 1899 | 8 Nov 1936 | |||
Conestoga Traction Company | Lancaster | Horse | Nov 1874 | ? | ||
Electric | 1890 | 20 Sep 1947 | ||||
♦ Latrobe | Electric | 1900 | 1952 | |||
Lebanon | Electric | 1891 | 21 Jul 1930 | |||
Leechburg – Apollo | Electric | 23 Mar 1906 | 17 Mar 1936 | |||
Lewisburg | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Lewistown | Electric | 190_ | ? | |||
Lock Haven | Electric | ? | ? | |||
♦ McKeesport | Electric | 1890 | 3 Jun 1938 | |||
Meadville | Electric | 189_ | 1928 | |||
Milton | Electric | 189_ | 1928 | |||
Mount Carmel | Electric | 189_ | 1936 | |||
New Castle | Electric | 1889 | 1940 | |||
New Kensington | Electric | 1906 | 22 May 1937 | See also Pittsburgh. | ||
♦ Norristown | Horse | 8 Apr 1885 | 1893 | Philadelphia and Western, Lehigh Valley Transit interurban. | ||
Electric | 21 Jul 1893 | 9 Sep 1933 | ||||
Oakdale – McDonald | Electric | 1907 | 15 Oct 1927 | See also Pittsburgh. | ||
Oil City – Franklin | Electric | 189_ | 16 Jun 1928 | |||
Philadelphia | Horse | 20 Jan 1858 | 14 Jan 1897 | |||
Cable | 7 Apr 1883 | 20 Jun 1895 | ||||
Electric | 15 Dec 1892 | 1992 | Last non Subway–Surface Trolley lines, Routes 23 and 56, closed in 1992. See also: Camden, New Jersey. | |||
SEPTA Subway–Surface Trolley Lines | Electric | 1906 | See SEPTA. | |||
SEPTA Routes 101 and 102 | Electric | Light rail | 15 Mar 1906 | See SEPTA. | ||
SEPTA Route 15 | Electric | 1859
2005 |
1992
|
Originally opened as a horsecar line in 1859; electrified in 1895; line extensions in 1902–1903. Closed and replaced by buses in 1992. Reopened as a heritage streetcar line in 2005. | ||
♦♦ Philadelphia (Upper Darby) – West Chester | Horse | 24 December 1858 | 1892 | |||
Electric | 1892 | 1954 | (Now mostly part of SEPTA.) | |||
Pittsburgh | Horse | 1859 | 1924 | |||
Cable | Sep 1888 | 14 Jun 1891 | ||||
Electric | converted to Light rail | 1888
(1984) |
See: Pittsburgh Railways. Also served many neighboring towns. Converted to and opened as Pittsburgh Light Rail starting on 15 Apr 1984; first downtown subway opened 3 Jul 1985; further modernizations in 1987; modernized Overbrook Line opened in 2004; subway extension to North Shore opened in 2012. Light-rail transit (LRT) system incorporates many segments built previously.[107] | |||
Pittsburgh Railways Interurban Division |
♦♦ Pittsburgh – Charleroi | Electric | ? | 1953 | ||
♦♦ Pittsburgh – McKeesport | Electric | ? | 1963 | |||
Pittsburgh Railways Interurban Division |
♦♦ Pittsburgh – Washington | Electric | ? | 29 Aug 1953 | ||
♦ Port Vue | Electric | ? | 1919 | |||
Pottstown | Electric | 189_ | 1937 | |||
Pottsville | Horse | 1872 | ? | |||
Electric | 1890 | 1932 | ||||
Punxsutawney | Electric | 189_ | 1926 | See also Du Bois. | ||
Reading | Horse | 1874 | ? | |||
Electric | 26 Nov 1888 | 17 Jan 1952 | ||||
Allenport & Roscoe Street Railway | Roscoe | Electric | 1903 | 1906 | Bought by Pittsburgh Railways | |
Sayre | Electric | 190_ | 1930 | |||
♦ Scottdale | Electric | 1891 | 1952 | |||
Scranton | Horse | 4 Jul 1867 | ? | |||
Scranton Transit Company | Electric | 30 Nov 1886[108] | 18 Dec 1954 | Scranton Transit Company was known as Scranton Railway Company until 1934 | ||
Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad | Scranton - Wilkes-Barre | Electric | ||||
Shamokin | Electric | 189_ | 1929 | |||
Sharon | Electric | 1890 | 1939 | See also: Youngstown, Ohio. | ||
Shenandoah | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Stroudsburg | Horse | 187_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1928 | ||||
Sunbury | Horse | 1885 | 1890 | |||
Electric | 1885
30 May 1890 |
1885
11 Mar 1939 |
||||
Titusville | Electric | 189_ | 1924 | |||
♦ Uniontown | Electric | 1890 | 1952 | |||
Washington and Canonsburg Railway Co. | ♦ Washington | Electric | 1903 | 1909 | Bought by Pittsburgh Railways. | |
Warren | Electric | 190_ | 1929 | |||
Waynesboro | Electric | ? | ? | |||
♦ West Chester | Electric | 189_ | 1927 | |||
Wilkes-Barre | Horse | 25 Jul 1866 | ? | |||
Electric | Mar 1888 | 14 Oct 1950 | See also Scranton. | |||
Williamsport | Electric | 189_ | 1933 | |||
York | Horse | ? | Sep 1886 | |||
Electric | 1892 | Feb 1939 | See also Hanover. |
Rhode Island[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Block Island | Horse | ? | c.1898 | |||
Newport | Electric | 7 Aug 1889 | 1925 | |||
♦ Pawtucket | Horse | 26 May 1864 | ? | |||
Electric | 20 Jan 1892 | 11 May 1934 | Service continued between Providence and Pawtucket to 26 Jun 1940. | |||
Providence | Horse | 26 May 1864 | 26 Apr 1894 | |||
Cable | 25 Dec 1889 | 26 Jan 1895 | ||||
Electric | 20 Jan 1892 | 14 May 1948 | ||||
Westerly | Electric | 189_ | ? | |||
Woonsocket | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 25 Sep
1888 |
Dec 1887
1928 |
South Carolina[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Anderson | Electric | 19 Feb 1905 | 14 Nov 1934 | |||
Charleston | Horse | 15 Oct 1866 | 1897 | |||
Electric | 26 Jun 1897 | 10 Feb 1938 | ||||
Columbia | Horse | 12 Oct 1886 | 1893 | |||
Electric | 3 May 1893 | 11 Mar 1927 | Limited service, resumed because of court order, 9 Jan 1931 – 22 Nov 1936. | |||
Gaffney | Steam | 1892 | 1896 | |||
Greenville | Horse | 1875 | 1897 | |||
Electric | 1900 | Oct 1937 | ||||
Orangeburg | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Rock Hill | Accumulator (storage battery) | 24 Feb 1912 | 1918 | |||
Spartanburg | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 1900 | 27 Apr 1935 | Service suspended 30 Dec 1922. Limited service restored (only one car in operation), 13 Jan 1923 – 21 Jul 1923. Full service resumed 1925. |
South Dakota[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aberdeen | Electric | Nov 1910 | 1922 | |||
Deadwood | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Hot Springs | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Pierre | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Rapid City | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Sioux Falls | Electric | ? | 1930 | |||
Watertown | Horse | ? | ? |
Tennessee[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Athens | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Bristol | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | ? | ||||
Chattanooga | Horse | ca. 1875 | 1891 | |||
Electric | 23 Jun 1889 | 10 Apr 1947 | ||||
Clarksville | Horse | 1888 | 1896 | |||
Electric | 1896 | 16 Jul 1928 | ||||
Cleveland | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Columbia | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Jackson | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1939 | ||||
Johnson City | Electric | 189_ | 1931 | |||
Knoxville | Horse | 14 Apr 1876 | 1894 | |||
Electric | 1 May 1890 | 1 Aug 1947 | ||||
Memphis (first era) | Horse | May 1866 | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1947 | ||||
MATA Trolley | Memphis (second era) | Electric | 29 Apr 1993[109] | Main Street Trolley heritage streetcar system opened in 1993; expansions in 1997 and 2004. Rebuilt system reopened in 2018. | ||
Nashville | Horse | 186_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1941 |
Texas[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Abilene | Electric | ? | 1931 | |||
Amarillo | Electric | ? | 1940 | |||
Aransas Pass | Mule | ? | ? | |||
Austin | Mule | 1875 | 1891 | |||
Electric | 1891 | 1940 | ||||
Beaumont | Electric | 190_ | 1937 | |||
Bonham | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Brownsville | Petrol (gasoline) | ? | ? | Connected Brownsville and San Benito | ||
Electric | 1915 | 1926 | ||||
Cleburne | Electric | ? | 1917 | |||
Corpus Christi | Mule | ? | ? | |||
Steam | ? | ? | ||||
Electric | 189_ | 1934 | ||||
Corsicana | Electric | 1902 | 30 Sep 1931 | |||
Dallas (first era) | Mule | 187_ | ? | |||
Cable | ? | ? | Construction started, not completed. | |||
Electric | 1890 | 15 Jan 1956 | ||||
McKinney Avenue Transit Authority | Dallas (second era) | Electric | 22 Jul 1989 | Reintroduction, as a heritage streetcar line providing regular transit service.[110] | ||
DART Light Rail | Electric | Light rail | 14 Jun 1996 | |||
Dallas Streetcar | Electric | 13 Apr 2015[111] | ||||
Denison | Mule | 188_ | ? | |||
Steam | ? | ? | ||||
Electric | ? | 1931 | ||||
Denton | Electric | ? | 1918 | |||
Dublin | Mule | ? | ? | |||
El Paso (first era) | Horse | Oct 1882 | 1902 | |||
Electric | 11 Jan 1902 | 1947 | International tramway (see below) continued in operation until 1973. | |||
International tramway | El Paso – Ciudad Juárez, Chih., | Mule | Oct 1882 | 1902 | ||
Electric | 11 Jan 1902 | 30 Jul 1973 | Operation suspended Aug 1966 – Nov 1967, and Jul 1969 – Nov 1970 because of bridge reconstruction. Operation restored following closure, in El Paso only, 14 Nov 1973 – 4 May 1974. | |||
El Paso Streetcar | El Paso (second era) | Electric | 9 Nov 2018[112] | Reintroduction | ||
Fort Worth | Mule | 187_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1939 | ||||
Gainesville | Mule | ? | ? | |||
Galveston (first era) | Mule | 1867 | ? | |||
Electric | 1891 | May 1938 | ||||
Galveston Island Trolley | Galveston (second era) | Diesel-electric | 23 Jul 1988 | Heritage streetcar. Note: Service has been suspended since 2008, due to damage from Hurricane Ike,[113] but is expected to be restored in 2019.[114] | ||
Galveston–Houston Electric Railway | ♦ Galveston - Houston | Electric | 1911 | 1936 | ||
Greenville | Mule | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 14 Dec 1918 | ||||
Haskell | Petrol (gasoline) | ? | ? | Connected Haskell and Hemphill Lake. | ||
Hillsboro | Mule | ? | 1898 | |||
Electric | ? | ? | ||||
Houston (first era) | Mule | 25 Jan 1868 | ? | |||
Electric | 14 Jun 1891 | 8 Jun 1940 | ||||
METRORail | Houston (second era) | Electric | Light rail | 1 Jan 2004 | ||
Lampasas | Mule | ? | ? | |||
Laredo | Electric | 27 Jan 1890 | 1934 | First electric town streetcar line in Texas. Also operated international tramway line to Nuevo Laredo, México. | ||
Lockhart | Mule | ? | ? | |||
Longview | Mule | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 188_ | 1925 | ||||
Marshall | Electric | 188_ | 1925 | |||
Matador | Petrol (gasoline) | 1914 | 1936 | Connected Matador and | ||
McKinney | Electric | ? | 1926 | |||
Mineral Wells | Petrol (gasoline) | ? | ? | |||
Electric | 1908 | 1920 | System included line connecting Mineral Wells and . | |||
Moscow | Mule | 1846(?) | ? | The opening year of 1846, which appears in a list of Texas town streetcar systems published by the Texas Division, Electric Railroaders Association, is believed unlikely. | ||
Mount Pleasant | Mule | ? | ? | |||
Palestine | Mule | 1875 | 1877 | |||
Paris | Mule | 187_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1926 | ||||
Port Arthur | Petrol (gasoline) | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1938 | ||||
Rockport | Mule | ? | ? | |||
Rusk | Mule | ? | ? | Connected Rusk and New Birmingham. New Birmingham was located 2 mi (3 km) south of Rusk.[115] | ||
San Angelo | Electric | 1908 | ? | |||
San Antonio | Mule | ? | ? | |||
Petrol (gasoline) | ? | ? | ||||
Electric | ? | 1933 | First large U.S. town to replace all electric town streetcar services with motorbuses. | |||
Seguin | Mule | ? | ? | |||
Sherman | Mule | 1877 | 1901 | |||
Electric | ? | 1931 | ||||
Taylor | Mule | 1891 | 1899 | |||
Electric | ? | ? | ||||
Temple | Electric | 190_ | 1923 | |||
Texas City | Petrol (gasoline) | ? | ? | |||
Tyler | Electric | 189_ | ? | |||
Uvalde | Steam | ? | ? | |||
Petrol (gasoline) | ? | ? | ||||
Vernon | Mule | ? | ? | |||
Victoria | Mule | 1888 | 1894 | |||
Waco | Mule | 1878 | ? | |||
Steam | ? | ? | ||||
Electric | ? | 3 Feb 1937 | ||||
Waxahachie | Mule | 1892 | 1912 | |||
Electric | 1912 | Feb 1928 | ||||
Weatherford | Mule | ? | ? | |||
Wichita Falls | Electric | 1909 | 1934 | System included line connecting Wichita Falls and Lake Wichita. | ||
Mule | ? | ? | Located near Tyler. |
- Note: Peschkes (Part Four, 1998, Page 125) states that, although listed in some statistics, streetcar systems were not built in the following towns:
- Brenham
- Colorado City
- Henrietta – Seymour
- Marlin –
- Sulphur Springs
Utah[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Brigham City | Electric | 1907 | 1919 | |||
Logan | Electric | 1910 | 1926 | |||
Ogden | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 26 Dec 1935 | ||||
Provo | Electric | Oct 1913 | 1919 | |||
Salt Lake City (first era) | Horse | 187_ | ? | |||
Electric | ?
1941 |
1941
1945 |
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TRAX | Salt Lake City (second era) | Electric | Light rail | 4 Dec 1999 | Reintroduction, as UTA's TRAX. | |
S Line (Utah Transit Authority) | Electric | 7 Dec 2013[116] | Modern streetcar system, the S Line (Utah Transit Authority) (originally known as the Sugar House Streetcar project). |
Vermont[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Barre | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Bellows Falls | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Brattleboro | Electric | 31 Jul 1895 | 29 Aug 1923 | |||
Burlington | Horse | 187_ | Green Mountain Railway | |||
Electric | ? | 3 Aug 1929 | ||||
Montpelier | Electric | ? | 1927 | Connected Montpelier and Barre. | ||
Rutland | Horse | 187_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1924 | ||||
Springfield | Electric | 18__ | 195_ | Connected Springfield and Charlestown, New Hampshire. | ||
St. Albans | Electric | 190_ | 1921 |
Virginia[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Charlottesville | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1935 | ||||
Danville | Horse | 1886 | 1888 | |||
Electric | ? | 1938 | ||||
Fredericksburg | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Lynchburg | Electric | ? | 2 Mar 1941 | |||
Norfolk (first era) | Horse | 186_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 11 Jul 1947 | ||||
♦ Newport News | Electric | 189_ | Jan 1946 | |||
♦ Portsmouth | Electric | ? | 1936 | |||
Tide Light Rail | Norfolk (second era) | Electric | Light rail | 19 Aug 2011 | ||
Petersburg | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 1936 | ||||
Radford | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Richmond Union Passenger Railway | Richmond | Horse | 186_ | ? | ||
Electric | 2 Feb 1888[117] | 25 Nov 1949[117] | First successful, reliable, large electrified streetcar system in the world, due to its use of the trolley pole invented by Frank J. Sprague. | |||
Roanoke | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 31 Aug 1948 | ||||
Staunton | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Tazewell | Electric | ? | ? |
Washington[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aberdeen | Electric | 1905 | 31 Jul 1932 | Connected Aberdeen, Hoquiam and Cosmopolis. | ||
Bellingham | Horse | 28 Mar 1891 | ? | |||
Electric | 1891 | 1 Dec 1938 | ||||
Twin City Railroad | Chehalis | Electric | 1910 | 1929 | Connected Chehalis and Centralia. | |
Everett | Electric | 3 Jul 1893 | 1923 | |||
Olympia | Horse | 188_ | 189_ | |||
Electric | 189_ | 1932 | ||||
Port Townsend | Steam | 18__ | 189__ | |||
Electric | 1895 | 189_ | ||||
Seattle Street Railway | Seattle (first era) | Horse | 23 Sep 1884 | ? | See: Seattle Street Railway | |
Cable | 29 Sep 1888 | 9 Aug 1940 | ||||
Electric | 30 Mar 1889[118] | 12 Apr 1941 | ||||
Seattle (second era) | Electric | 29 May 1982 | 18 Nov 2005 | Heritage streetcar line called the Waterfront Streetcar. Operation was suspended in 2005, but long-stalled plans to restore service have been dropped, and three of the five cars were sold in 2016.[119] | ||
Seattle Streetcar | Electric | 12 Dec 2007[120] | Reintroduction; see Seattle Streetcar. | |||
Central Link | Electric | Light rail | 18 Jul 2009 | See Link light rail. | ||
South Bend | Electric | 1911 | Jun 1930 | Connected South Bend and Raymond. | ||
Spokane | Horse | 188_ | ? | |||
Cable | 21 Sep 1889 | 22 Jul 1894 | ||||
Electric | ? | 1936 | ||||
Tacoma (first era) | Horse | 1888 | ? | |||
Cable | 4 Aug 1891 | 8 Apr 1938 | ||||
Electric | ? | 1938 | See Streetcars in Tacoma, Washington. | |||
Tacoma Link | Tacoma (second era) | Electric | Light rail | 22 Aug 2003 | Reintroduction, as Tacoma Link. | |
Vancouver | Electric | ? | 1927 | See also Portland, Oregon. | ||
Walla Walla | Horse | 1890 | 1899 | |||
Electric | 24 Dec 1906[121] | 31 Dec 1926[121] | ||||
♦ Walla Walla – Milton-Freewater, Oregon | Electric | 16 Apr 1907[121] | 2 Sep 1931[121] | A 14-mile (23 km) electric interurban line.[121] | ||
Yakima Valley Transportation Company | Yakima | Electric | 25 Dec 1907 | 1 Feb 1947 | Heritage streetcar service (Yakima Valley Trolleys) began operation 12 October 1974. |
West Virginia[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bluefield | Electric | 190_ | 1936 | |||
Charleston | Electric | ? | 1939 | |||
Clarksburg | Electric | 1899 | 1939 | |||
Fairmont | Electric | 1900 | 1940 | |||
Ohio Valley Electric Railway | Huntington | Electric | 188_ | 1938 | ||
Martinsburg | Electric | 189_ | 189_ | |||
Morgantown | Electric | 1903 | 1934 | Morgantown's modern transit system is the Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit people mover. | ||
Newell | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Parkersburg | Horse | 1889 | ? | |||
Electric | 1898 | 25 May 1947 | ||||
Princeton | Electric | ? | 1940 | |||
Wheeling | Horse | 21 Jul 1886 | ? | |||
Electric | 15 Mar 1888 | 14 Apr 1948 |
Wisconsin[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Appleton | Electric | 1886 | 6 Apr 1930 | |||
Ashland | Horse | 29 Jun 1887 | 1893 | |||
Electric | 22 Jan 1893 | 25 Sep 1933 | ||||
Beloit | Electric | 31 Jul 1907 | 12 Aug 1930 | |||
♦ Chippewa Falls | Electric | ? | ? | |||
Eau Claire | Horse | 1880 | 1889 | |||
Electric | 15 Nov 1889 | 8 Apr 1932 | ||||
Fond du Lac | Horse | 1888 | 1888 | |||
Electric | 20 Oct 1893
27 Jun 1899 |
1894
1931 |
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Green Bay | Electric | 8 Jun 1894 | 17 Nov 1937 | |||
Janesville | Horse | 24 Jul 1886 | 27 Nov 1891 | |||
Electric | 24 Jun 1892 | 8 Jul 1929 | ||||
Kaukauna | Electric | January 29, 1902 from Appleton. 1904 from Green Bay. | May 9, 1928 | Served by from Appleton and . The two systems met in Kaukauna to exchange passengers but did not normally run through despite a physical connection. | ||
Kenosha | Electric | 1 Feb 1903 | Jun 1931 | Heritage streetcar (Kenosha Electric Streetcar) opened 17 Jun 2000.[122] | ||
La Crosse | Horse | 1878 | ? | |||
Electric | 1893 | 1945 | ||||
Madison | Horse | 15 Nov 1884 | 30 Sep 1892 | |||
Electric | 1889 | 3 Feb 1935 | ||||
Manitowoc | Electric | 1902 | 9 May 1927 | Also served Two Rivers | ||
Marinette | Horse | 1889 | ? | |||
Electric | 1891 | 1928 | System also served Menominee, Michigan. | |||
Menasha | Electric | ? | ? | Served by from Appleton. | ||
Merrill Railway & Lighting Co. | Merrill | Electric | 1889 | 1921 | ||
The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company | Milwaukee (first era) | Horse | 30 Aug 1860 | ? | ||
Electric | 3 Apr 1890 | 2 Mar 1958 | System also included interurban lines | |||
The Hop | Milwaukee (second era) | Electric | 2 Nov 2018[123] | Reintroduction | ||
Neenah | Horse | 1880 | ? | |||
Electric | ? | ? | ||||
Oshkosh | Horse | 18 Oct 1882 | 1897 | |||
Electric | 14 Jul 1897 | 21 May 1930 | Omro was served by a line from Oshkosh | |||
Portage | Electric | Jun 1913 | 1922 | |||
Racine | Horse | Oct 1883 | ? | |||
Electric | Nov 1892 | 1 Oct 1940 | ||||
Wisconsin Power & Light | Sheboygan | Horse | 1886 | 1895 | ||
Electric | 27 Nov 1895 | 1935 | ||||
Superior | Horse | 22 Aug 1887 | 1890 | |||
Electric | 1 Jul 1890 | 23 Jun 1935 | System also served Duluth, Minnesota. | |||
Watertown | Electric | Jun 1926 | Jul 1927 | |||
Waupaca Electric Light and Railway Company | Waupaca | Electric | 9 Jul 1899 | 4 Jul 1925 | ||
Wausau | Electric | 1906 | 1 Oct 1940 | |||
Wisconsin Rapids | Electric | 1 Nov 1910 | 15 Aug 1931 |
Wyoming[]
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Interurban or light rail, if applicable | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cheyenne | Horse | ? | ? | |||
Electric | ? | 15 Aug 1924 | ||||
Sheridan Railway Company[124] | Sheridan | Electric | Streetcar & Interurban | 11 Aug 1910 | Apr 1926 | Consisted of 2 city streetcar lines and 1 interurban line |
See also[]
- List of town tramway systems – parent article
- List of town tramway systems in North America
- Streetcars in North America
- Light rail in the United States
- List of United States light rail systems by ridership
- List of tram and light rail transit systems
- List of rail transit systems in the United States
- List of metro systems
- List of United States rapid transit systems by ridership
- List of trolleybus systems in the United States
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