A few years ago, they created a subsidiary called United Streetcar. Now they are manufacturing the first American-built streetcars in more than 50 years.

Streetcars are returning, possibly to a neighborhood near(er) you, though in both the U.S. and Canada political headwinds may slow their arrival.

More than 3 million Teslas installed with the company’s “Full Self-Driving” technology are on American roads. In June, a ...

Blanche: “How could I—do that?” —Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire David Cromer’s masterful Writers’ Theatre production of A Streetcar Named Desire is just about as intimate ...

The Key to Surviving the Great American Streetcar Closures? Dedicated Space Whether through tunnels, median lanes or off-street rights-of-way, relief from competition with cars and trucks was the key ...

That means United Streetcar's innovation is creating an economic ripple effect, providing business for an all-American supply chain of more than 200 different vendors in 20-plus states across the U.S.

Riding the rails: A new book recounts the history of Washington’s streetcar system.

Seattle's latest streetcars are environmentally friendly, quiet, and charming. But can they handle the traffic load of a modern American city?

Cities want modern light rail trains and vintage-style streetcars. Most are built by foreign firms. Few know they also are manufactured by an American company with deep roots in Rust-Belt western ...

Newcombe has been following the revitalization of American streetcars for years. In 2012, his piece on the now 14-year-old Portland streetcar explains the model which cities today are hoping to ...

Shreveport had mule-drawn streetcars for decades before they became electrified. And during those days, there were no age restrictions on the purchase of tobacco products.

The St. Charles cars first rolled in 1835. The fare was 25 cents, Louis C. Hennick and E Harper Charlton wrote in “The Streetcars of New Orleans.” (That fare translates to $7.58 in today’s ...