From horse-drawn carriages to bicycles, boats and buses, people throughout history have devised faster and easier ways of getting from place to place. The 1800s saw a rapid development of mechanical ...

Ride early Wisconsin trains and explore wood tracks, lantern signals, and rail innovations. Ride the rails with Doris Platt to discover Wisconsin’s early trains, wood-burning engines and wooden tracks ...

This photo from the Allen County Historical Society, a line of new buses produced by the Superior Body Co. for the Lima City Lines approaches downtown Lima in May 1939. “The exterior of the buses is ...

MEDINA, Ohio -- Streetcar rides are coming to the Northern Ohio Railway Museum for the first time and it will be on an historic Cleveland streetcar. Members of the museum are inviting everyone to ...

INDIANAPOLIS (MIRROR INDY) — When the wheels fell off the “Blue Line bill” last month – which would have banned dedicated IndyGo bus lanes on a new route along Washington Street from Cumberland to the ...

The electric trolley car had its golden age in this region during the first 50 years of the 20th century. The center city was at its most vibrant. It was the heart of Connecticut s major industrial ...

Riding the Red Car to Los Angeles was something I relished as a kid. In the late 1940s and early '50s, the fastest public transportation from the far-flung suburbs of Los Angeles to Downtown L.A. was ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Sun Tran is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Back in 1975, Tucson's bus service had rebranded itself as Sun Tran. From mules, to trolleys, to buses, Tucson's transit history ...

With the Milwaukee Common Council scheduled to vote on the $123.9 million initial phase of the Milwaukee Streetcar at its Feb. 10 meeting, it's worth taking a moment to recall we've been down this ...

In 1887 – 130 years ago – Richmond was on the cusp of history as inventor Frank J. Sprague prepared to introduce electric streetcars to the city (passenger operations began in early 1888). Here are ...

Earlier this month, we tracked down the incredible private subway car of August Belmont Jr., the financier for the first subway line in New York City at the Shore Line Trolley Museum in Connecticut.

As workers dug up S. Kansas Avenue six years ago for a project to improve downtown Topeka, they found remnants of a bygone era: Tracks that carried electric streetcars that once provided public ...