This month marks the 35th anniversary of New Orleans’ riverfront streetcar line. When the riverfront streetcars made their inaugural run on Aug. 14, 1988, it marked the first new streetcar ...

Starting Monday morning, the Riverfront streetcar line will be out of service for nearly two weeks after vandalism and theft affected its operations, according to New Orleans' Regional Transit ...

The clackety-clack is officially back. New Orleans on Sunday resumed its streetcar service, which had been out of commission since Hurricane Katrina wiped out the utility poles and metal tracks ...

New Orleans rebuilt the old Canal St. line and laid track elsewhere, including down Rampart Street and along the riverfront, connecting the French Quarter to parts uptown.

He said that, according to a local streetcar historian, the Army had surplus olive drab paint available for sale after World War I, so NOPSI used that color, and added: “That shade of green was ...

The streetcars that traveled up and down St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans for the past 170 years and their shiny new red counterparts on Canal Street will be out of service for months, maybe a ...

New Orleans’ St. Charles streetcar rumbled and clanked through the Big Easy Tuesday for the first time since Hurricane Katrina shut down the world’s oldest continuously running line 16 months ago.

2001-08-05 04:00:00 PDT New Orleans-- For half a century, "A Streetcar Named Desire" has run through the literary heart of America. The 1947 play by Tennessee Williams, named for an actual ...

NEW ORLEANS - The St. Charles streetcar line - the oldest continuously operating streetcar line in the world - may be rumbling along at least a short strip of its namesake avenue by the end of the ...

NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority will suspend service along a portion of the Canal streetcar route beginning at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday from Bourbon Street to Harrah’s ...