A streetcar line in New Orleans was given special recognition this week by the U.S. Department of the Interior.Officials with the Department of the Interior designated the St. Charles Avenue ...

New Orleans and its streetcars are famously unhurried. The St. Charles line clanks along, ... gesturing as much at the car’s interior and her fellow passengers as the world outside.

The St. Charles cars first rolled in 1835. The fare was 25 cents, Louis C. Hennick and E Harper Charlton wrote in “The Streetcars of New Orleans.” (That fare translates to $7.58 in today’s ...

City leaders gathered Tuesday afternoon to celebrate one of New Orleans' most well-known and historic landmarks.The St. Charles Streetcar Line has been in operation since 1835. In addition, the ...

100+ years of New Orleans streetcars as found in the photo archives of NOLA.com and The Times-Picayune. The first image is of a mule-drawn streetcar in 1882. The most recent ...

A New Orleans bus driver tips his hat to the streetcar he replaced in 1948. Only a fraction of the city’s historic streetcar network survived, but in recent years the city opened two new lines ...

Knocked out of service by Katrina, the streetcar makes a partial comeback. Nov. 12, 2007 — -- To Mike Saccoliti, the St. Charles Avenue streetcar is more than just a tourist draw. It's a way ...

The next time you hop a St. Charles Line streetcar in New Orleans, you’ll be riding on a newly minted National Historic Landmark. A golf course in New Jersey, explorer Robert Peary’s summer ...

The bill is sponsored by Louisiana Sen. Jimmy Harris, D-New Orleans. If it becomes law, any unauthorized use of an image of the New Orleans streetcar would result in a fine not to exceed $5,000.

The St. Charles cars first rolled in 1835. The fare was 25 cents, Louis C. Hennick and E Harper Charlton wrote in “The Streetcars of New Orleans.” (That fare translates to $7.58 in today’s ...