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The Frank E. Beach Memorial Fountain, officially titled Water Sculpture, [1] [2] is an abstract 1975 stainless steel fountain and sculpture by artist Lee Kelly and architect James Howell, installed in Washington Park's International Rose Test Garden in Portland, Oregon. [3]
The streetcar system of Monterey, California operated between 1891 and 1923. It started as a horsecar line before being electrified in the early 1900s and expanded to ...
The OC Streetcar is a modern streetcar line currently under construction in Orange County, California, running through the cities of Santa Ana and Garden Grove.The electric-powered streetcar will be operated by the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA), and will serve ten stops in each direction along its 4.15-mile (6.68 km) route.
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. In many U.S. cities, the streetcar system was operated by a succession of private companies; this is not a list of streetcar operating ...
By the late 1930s, automobile ownership had grown to greatly reduce demand for the streetcars. A special election in Eureka in November 1939 ended in favor of halting streetcar service, and operations ceased after February 20, 1940. [5] A decommissioned car was ceremonially set on fire four days later, marking the end of the tram era in the city.
New public transit streetcar services also returned, at least in the United States, around the same time as the emergence of the new light rail transit. A heritage streetcar in Dallas. The majority of streetcar lines opened in the late-20th century were heritage lines, opened as a tourist service, and not as a "true" public transit line.
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As of 2016, the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) is collaborating with the cities of Santa Ana and Garden Grove to build a streetcar line. The western terminus of the proposed route would follow the Pacific Electric right-of-way near the intersection of Harbor Boulevard and Westminster Avenue in Garden Grove. [16]