In this growing collection we feature STREETCARS, motorcars, and trolleys from museums and municipal systems all over the United States. We also have a growing collection of commuter transit railroads and incline plane operations. Our special HawkinsRails emphasis is on the historic New Orleans streetcar system — the oldest continually-operated public streetcar operation in the world. Keep a look out on the neutral ground when catching a St. Charles car to go make groceries!

paritius_a merican cities in the 19th century were walking cities—most residents worked and shopped close to where they lived. But as electric streetcar (trolley) systems were built in the 1880s, 1890s, and early 1900s, cities expanded. Many city dwellers moved to new trolley suburbs; streetcars made it easy to travel greater distances to work, shop, and socialize in town. City streets and the patterns of people’s daily lives changed.

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egyptian_c lang-clang the trolley goes
Picking up passengers every
Where it goes. All aboard
The conductor says. Put your
Fare in the slot so we can
Begin. Have a seat any where
You can. Pull the cord when
You are ready to get off, and
I will stop the trolley so you
Can depart. I have fun as the
Day goes by, I love to hear
The sound of the trolley,
Clang-clang the trolley goes
I love my job and I am sure
It shows