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The Car Barn has a collection of street cars from over 120 years, including Margaret, Rosie, Betty, and Matilda.
transportation

Fixing the World’s Oldest Trolleys Is Like Solving a Century-Old Jigsaw Puzzle

As mechanics at the Car Barn in Dallas know, you can’t just order a part from 1909.
Greg Christensen August 17, 2023
Railing detail
Vancouver, British Columbia

Science World Station

The ruins of Vancouver's abandoned heritage railway.
The artist Jake Berman mapped the Pacific Electric Railway route, as it rolled along in 1926.
maps

Mapping Old Rail Routes Like Contemporary Subways

They're dreamy.
Jessica Leigh Hester January 7, 2019
Excelsior, Minnesota

The Steamboat Minnehaha

This vintage "streetcar boat" lay at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka until the 1980s.
Near the top of the stairs (January 2025)
Seattle, Washington

Howe Street Stairs

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.
The streetcar deck of the Detroit-Superior Bridge open in 2009.
Cleveland, Ohio

Streetcar Deck of the Detroit-Superior Bridge

Abandoned since the 1950s, the streetcar lane beneath the heavily trafficked bridge lays empty and unused.
A Brooklyn Rapid Transit electric streetcar in 1908.
Brooklyn, New York

Canarsie Trolley Graveyard

Residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood may be unaware their houses sit atop a buried trolley graveyard.
The car barn circa 1980-2006.
Washington, D.C.

Capital Transit Co. Streetcar Barn

Before Metro, Washington had a robust streetcar network—and you see the remains of this infrastructure if you know where to look.