Author: Kenneth C. Springirth

Reading Railroad Heritage is a photographic essay of the history of a well-run system up to its acquisition by the Consolidated Rail Corporation in...

San Francisco's first cable car line opened in 1873. The successful development of the electric streetcar by Frank Sprague in 1888 plus the 1906 Sa...

Detroit's Streetcar Heritage is a photographic essay of the Detroit, Michigan, streetcar system. Replacement of slow moving horsecar service began ...

`Baltimore Streetcar Memories is a photographic essay of the Baltimore, Maryland streetcar system. Baltimore was the first United States city to b...

New Jersey''s Trolley Heritage is a photographic essay of trolley cars that once served Atlantic City, Ocean City, and Wildwood, plus the modernize...

`Cincinnati Streetcar Heritage'' is a photographic essay of the Cincinnati, Ohio, streetcar system. Cincinnati''s first electric streetcar line was...

Street Cars of Washington D.C. is a photographic essay of the history of the well-kept modern street car system that provided frequent transit serv...

On August 7, 2011, former Pennsylvania Railroad type E8A diesel units No. 5711 and No. 5809 are passing through the borough of Greenville in Mercer...

The Toronto Beaches Lions Club Easter Parade of April 8, 2012 leading off with Toronto Transit Commission historic Presidents' Conference Committee...

Chicago's South Shore Line is a photographic essay of the last interurban electric railroad operating in the United States. Completed as the Chica...

The first street railway opened in New Orleans in 1835. Over the years various methods of powering the streetcars including horses, stream locomoti...