Tag: New Orleans streetcar

  • The New Orleans Streetcar Through the Years: Part 1

    The New Orleans Streetcar Through the Years: Part 1

    When the sun is shining, there’s hardly an image more iconic in New Orleans than that of a streetcar rumbling down St. Charles Avenue. Tennesee Williams knew it when he wrote his 20th century masterpiece, A Streetcar Named Desire. By then, railway technology had already been spreading across the globe for a hundred years —…