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A tram is an urban rail transit type in which vehicles, whether individual railcars or multiple-unit trains, run on tramway tracks laid on public streets, although some trams run on sections of track
A sign in Portland that reads "go by streetcar". Trams are often called streetcars in North America.
A trackless train is also called tram in U.S. English.
A horse-drawn tram operated by Swansea and Mumbles Railway, 1870. Established in 1804, the railway service was the world's first.
Inauguration of the Milan–Monza tramway, 1876.
Streetcar suburb
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A streetcar suburb is a residential community whose growth and development was strongly shaped by the use of streetcar lines as a primary means of transportation. Such suburbs developed in the United
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Advertisement for a subdivision in Cincinnati, Ohio, touting the short walk to nearby rail stations
A Toronto streetcar on Queen Street East in 1923 serving streetcar suburbs such as Riverdale and The Beaches.
A Toronto streetcar in 2007 serving the same areas.
1920s tract houses in Mt Lebanon, on narrow lots backing onto the streetcar line