streetcar
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Repetitive imagery of freeways, streetcar tracks, even horses seem to torture the main characters for feeling stuck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The city is increasing public transit to the stadium on match days but keeping subway, bus and streetcar prices at normal levels of less than $4 a ride.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
When the next streetcar rolls in, the upper deck fills with a gaggle of schoolgirls, squabbling over who gets the window seat closest to the sea breeze.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
An-My, you chose Robert Frank’s picture of a streetcar in New Orleans, taken that year.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
The streetcar showed up first as a hum in the soles of his boots.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
The area lost its last rail service in 1952 when the Pacific Electric streetcars stopped running.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Workers trudged miles to their jobs as horses were too weak to pull streetcars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Now, Egyptians young and old have flocked for farewell rides, before the streetcars come to a halt in April.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
Scranton’s nickname, “Electric City,” stems from its being one of the first places in the U.S. to have electric streetcars.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2025
They took trains and streetcars to work and congratulated themselves on living upwind of the stockyards.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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