This is a boondoggle. It's a craft project that we used to do in Boy Scouts so that we had something to put our keys on. via Etsy Crap ...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Ask Hunter S. Thompson about LA traffic and growth in 1965.

Historians in LA are checking out historic houses along the streetcar lines that used to run all over the region. That got me thinking, we...

George B sent this to one of my email lists and if you're from San Francisco you'll appreciate it for sure.

Yesterday we brought you a first listserve post by Scott Bernstein of the Center for Neighborhood Technology in Chicago about some streetca...

This was an email written earlier today by Scott Bernstein at the Center for Neighborhood Technology who is a huge streetcar historian and a...

This was the story back in 1955. Can you imagine a bunch of high school kids hoping on an N and going for a ride, picking up passengers an...

Very cool article via Planetizen . It would be interesting to be there when they open up that Brooklyn subway wall and find a tipped over...

I always like reading these articles . It's cool that you can find history right under the streets. Usually it's just utilities an...

Ryan asks what some good books are on Rail Policy. I'm not sure if this is what he was looking for, but I think Stephen Goddard's ...

Kevin at Fortworthology sent me this map of the streetcar lines of 1925 overlaid with the current plan. It's interesting to see what ...

Urban Cincy Brings us this Gem :

I wish this streetcar network were still around... 1925 San Francisco Street Map Originally uploaded by Dollar Bin

The death of streetcars started this way .

So my parents got me an awesome book on the History of Houston's street railways. On page 92 there's a flyer that has a picture of ...

I hear there is an upcoming election on a rapid transit network. The Mayor urges the opponents to stop being ridiculous . Hopefully that i...

Just finished touring the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in DC. Saw something interesting. How did the Wright Brothers get to Kitty Hawk...

Apparently Louisville Kentucky had elevated electric rail service in 1886, remnants of which still remain today.

Twin Cities Rapid Transit was one of the best streetcar companies in the country before its demise. It's secondly most famous for the s...

Martin over at Seattle Transit Blog has a good discussion going about how to appeal to anti-transit conservatives on issues of transit expa...