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List of streetcar systems in the United States

This is a list of past and present streetcar (tram), interurban, and light rail systems in the United States. System here refers to all streetcar infrastructure and rolling stock in a given metropolitan area; it is not a list of the private companies that operated streetcars.

Like other country-wide lists indexed at List of town tramway systems, this list includes past and present systems. For lists of active systems, see:

In the state-by-state tables below:

  • Names and cities of currently operating systems appear in bold on blue backgrounds.
  • A diamond (♦) symbol denotes a system that operates or operated in the same area as another independent system.
  • The Type column denotes interurban and light rail systems, and is left blank for the far-more-plentiful streetcar systems. (Some pre-1970s systems might have been called light rail if the term had existed at the time.)

Alabama

  • Peschkes (Part Four, 1998, page 26) states that a company was organized to build a steam tramway in Blountsville but never started construction, and that other sources tabulate this system among those in operation.

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Peschkes (Part Four, 1998, Page 59) states that, despite various evidence, the following town did not have a tramway:

Connecticut

Delaware

District of Columbia

  • Notes for Washington, D.C.:
  • Operation into Maryland, September 16, 1892 – January 2, 1960.
  • Operation into Virginia, 1923 – August 25, 1956.

Florida

Georgia

Peschkes (Part Four, 1998, Page 44) states that, despite the assumption of another historian, there is no evidence for tramways in the following towns:

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

  • Peschkes (Part Four, 1998, Page 57) states that, although included in some statistics, the following (horse-drawn) streetcar systems were not built:
  • Beloit.
  • Dighton. Peschkes states that one source, dated 1888, states that this town had a streetcar line, but no confirmation was found.
  • El Dorado.
  • Marion. Peschkes states that "there is no more than a rumor" that this town had a horsecar line.

Kentucky

  • Peschkes (Part Four, 1998, Page 59) states that, despite various evidence, the following towns did not have streetcar systems:
  • Barbourville – Peschkes describes "a marvellous picture postcard of a horse tramcar in the main street of Barbourville, with a woman driver," dated 1917. Similar picture postcards exist for U.S. towns that did not have horsecar or streetcar systems.
  • Mount Sterling.

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

  • Peschkes (Part Four, 1998, Page 80) states that, despite various evidence, the following towns did not have streetcar systems:
  • Excelsior Springs.
  • Lexington.

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

  • Note for Newark: The streetcar subway, the Newark City Subway, opened May 26, 1935. Also served East Orange and other neighboring towns. (See also Public Service Railway and Newark-Trenton Fast Line.) Last Newark streecar line not using the subway closed May 1, 1938. Last surface streetcar lines using the subway closed March 30, 1952. Since then, effectively operated as a "light rail" line; line extended in 2002. System expanded to include a second line in 2006.

New Mexico

New York

  • Note for Cortland – Homer – McGraw – Preble: Horse tramway connected Cortland and Homer. Electric tramway, opened April 1, 1895, connected Cortland, Homer and McGraw. Extended to Preble in 1907. McGraw Preble segment closed April 1, 1929. Remainder closed February 15, 1931.
  • Note for Newburgh – Orange Lake – Walden: Opened in stages, to Orange Lake in July 1894, completed June 1, 1895. Newburgh – Orange Lake operated during summer season, 1924 and 1925, petrol (gasoline) traction (?).
  • Note for New York – City Island: Experimental monorail operated Bartow railway station – north end of City Island bridge, July 15–19, 1910, and November 14, 1910 – March 16, 1914.
  • Note for New York – Rockaway Park: Tramcars operated over electrified Long Island Rail Road tracks between Far Rockaway and Hammels, 1905 – September 9, 1926, using overhead current collection to 1912 and third-rail current collection thereafter.

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

  • Note for Dayton: Town streetcar services were provided by a single undertaking in most U.S. towns. Such undertakings were often organized by consolidation ("unification") of predecessor undertakings. In most cases, such consolidations were completed before the First World War. Dayton was a notable exception. In this town, five undertakings operated town streetcar services from 1909 to 1933. Conversions to trolleybus began in 1933; remarkably, all five undertakings operated trolleybuses for several months in 1940, before the beginning of consolidations. See Trolleybuses in Dayton for further information.

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

See also

Notes

Footnotes

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