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All the songs from "A Streetcar Named Marge" are available on Rhino Records' 1997 album Songs in the Key of Springfield.
As a result of his involvement in support of striking streetcar workers he was elected to the Ontario legislature from Hamilton East in a 1906 by-election as an Independent Labour MLA becoming the first Labour member of the Ontario legislature.
The following summer Charles Delemere Haines arrived in Ypsilanti and quickly determined that the city's population could not support its own streetcar system, but that an interurban between it and neighboring Ann Arbor, Michigan, would be viable.
With the advent of the TCRT streetcar system in the 1910s, the line was redundant and was converted to heavy rail by the CMSPP, though it still carried passenger trains between the Saint Paul Union Depot and the Milwaukee Road Depot in neighboring Minneapolis.
However, at the time, they also ran a streetcar line in Sacramento.
Broadway Line (Lower Manhattan surface), Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue Line, Broadway and Columbus Avenue Line, and Broadway and Lexington Avenue Line (bus, formerly streetcar) on Broadway below Times Square
The incident occurred on a westbound 505 Dundas streetcar at Dundas Street West and Bellwoods Avenue, after Yatim drew a knife and exposed himself.
Elizabeth Jennings Graham, black woman who insisted on being admitted to a streetcar in 1854
The Eureka Valley Station was an underground streetcar station in San Francisco, California, in use from 1918 until 1972.
Fred Albin Ossanna (August 13, 1893 – September 1978) was a Minnesota lawyer who oversaw the dismantling of the Minneapolis-St. Paul streetcar system as head of Twin City Rapid Transit Company in the 1950s.
Horoden Streetcar route #1 is made up with next two lines, and both lines are linked up with each other at Kamiya-cho-higashi Station.
Hiroden Streetcar route #3 Hiroden-nishi-hiroshima – Hiroshima Port Route runs between Hiroden-nishi-hiroshima Station and Hiroshima Port.
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Horoden Streetcar route #3 is made up with next two lines, and both lines are linked up with each other at Kamiya-cho-nishi Station.
Hiroden Streetcar route #7 "Yokogawa Station - Hiroden-honsha-mae Route" runs between Yokogawa Station and Hiroden-honsha-mae Station.
The Jersey Central Traction Company was a streetcar company in central New Jersey, with its main lines from Red Bank and Highlands to Perth Amboy.
Brooklyn Rapid Transit streetcar 4547, built in 1906, sees regular operation at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine.
When later combined with other streetcar companies such as the Toronto Civic Railways, the Toronto and York Radial Railway and the Toronto Suburban Railway, the TRC became the basis for the Toronto Transit Commission in 1921.
Originally constructed as a streetcar line using PCC streetcars, the Newark City Subway ran from Newark Penn to a loop at the Newark city line located at what was then called Franklin Avenue.
The route of LA 3261 once carried a small piece of the Jefferson Highway (State Route 1 in the pre-1955 Louisiana highway system) and U.S. 61 until 1928-1929 when Jefferson Highway was extended along the Orleans-Kenner interurban streetcar right-of-way from Shrewsbury Road to the Protection Levee at South Claiborne Avenue.
These highways were moved off of the route in 1928-1929 when Jefferson Highway was extended along the Orleans-Kenner interurban streetcar right-of-way from Shrewsbury Road to the Protection Levee at South Claiborne Avenue to provide a more direct entrance into New Orleans.
The neighborhood’s popularity was enhanced by a range of amenities including gas and water service, a new streetcar line established by Colonel McDonald, and an extensive tree planting program implemented with the assistance of famed local horticulturist Luther Burbank.
The company ultimately dismantled these systems and replaced them with bus systems in what became known as the 'Great American streetcar scandal' and formed the inspiration for the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
The Orange Empire Railway Museum, a railway and streetcar museum in Perris, California
In 2007, the company entered the field of streetcar (tram) manufacturing, after being awarded a contract, in January 2007, by the City of Portland for the provision of a prototype U.S.-manufactured streetcar for the Portland Streetcar system.
From Scranton Northeast to the city of Carbondale on lines of the former Delaware and Hudson Railway's Pennsylvania Branch, from Scranton Southeast into Monroe County on lines of the former Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, towards New Jersey and the New York City market, and from Scranton Southwest to Montage Mountain, Moosic on lines of the former Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad third-rail interurban streetcar line.
The frame and steel components of the car used in the construction are from a 1924 Melbourne, Australia streetcar.
It included the original novella, "My Life in Speculative Fiction." These stories plus recent material appeared in Streetcar Dreams and Other Midnight Fancies from England's PS Publishing in 2006.
Williams joined politician Walter P. Brownlow in forming Watauga Light and Power Company and the Johnson City Transit Company (Johnson City Streetcar Company).
They saw the success of Frank Julian Sprague's Richmond Union Passenger Railway in Richmond, Virginia, and determined that an electric streetcar system running through their then-isolated portion of the city would be a good way to boost property values.
510 Spadina, a modern streetcar system, completed in 1997, running entirely in a dedicated right-of-way
From the Dundas West subway station, the 504 King streetcar stops at Queen Street/The Queensway one block to the east, on Roncesvalles Avenue, where a transfer can be made to the 501 streetcar.
Scenes of streetcar strikes, and the friction between owners and workers, appear in contemporary fiction such as Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie of 1900 (based on Dreiser's own experience in a Toledo, Ohio strike), and William Dean Howells' A Hazard of New Fortunes of 1890.
Kenosha Transit, operator of the streetcar circulator as well as Kenosha's bus system.
Historic Downtown Los Angeles Streetcar - planned local streetcar in Downtown Los Angeles
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Los Angeles Railway ("yellow cars") - former local streetcar system in the City of Los Angeles and adjacent areas
Twin City Rapid Transit Company, which ran a streetcar system in the Twin Cities until 1954
The location was well-suited to access to the popular Sunnyside Amusement Park located nearby and streetcar routes nearby.
After the system's abandonment, 42 cars of the largest and newest type, built by TARS itself in 1938–1939 (on Brill trucks), were sold to the operator of the Vienna, Austria, streetcar system, Wiener Stadtwerke Verkehrsbetriebe (now Wiener Linien), for operation there.
The Bloor streetcar was extended from Jane Street to Woodbine Avenue, and remained in operation until it was replaced by the Bloor-Danforth Subway line in 1968.
Up to 17 people, including four schoolchildren, were sent to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries after a 505 Dundas streetcar heading eastbound collided with a Greyhound Canada bus at River Street.
The centerpiece of the plan is a light rail streetcar system (possibly similar to the Portland Streetcar in Oregon) that will travel through the downtown area, connecting the main University of Arizona campus with the Rio Nuevo master plan area on the western edge of downtown.
The play also remains notable for being the first time Brando and Malden worked together, prior to co-starring in A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, and One Eyed Jacks.
The service through the tunnel has evolved from streetcars into light rail, and while there are longer light-rail tunnels elsewhere (such as Portland's Robertson Tunnel), the Twin Peaks Tunnel remains one of the world's longest streetcar or light-rail tunnels.
There are Helvetisms like das Tram instead of die Tram(-bahn), because the Swiss say Tram (streetcar) with a neuter article, instead of using the feminine article, that would be correct in Standard German.