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Both have done away with them, leaving Kolkata as the only Indian city to hold onto the trundling streetcars.

An-My, you chose Robert Frank’s picture of a streetcar in New Orleans, taken that year.

He still lives in Seattle, consults for transportation clients, and joined the board of a company that locates underground utility obstacles, like those which delayed the new Tacoma Link Hilltop Extension streetcar.

King County Metro Transit said Thursday the South Lake Union streetcar won’t be in service from noon Friday to 3 p.m.

Even modestly sized American cities once enjoyed rail transit in the form of streetcars and electric-powered interurban systems linking towns together, not to mention an abundance of commuter trains.