streetcar
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Kylee Loera’s mostly black-and-white projections strategically added atmospheric images, including the eponymous streetcar; Eric Southern’s lighting zeroed in on Blanche—in different colors—whenever she slipped into reverie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
“These days the streetcar is like a relic around here,” said Tetyana Yuriskulova, who has been driving trams since 1994.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Engineering student Mahmoud Bassam, 24, has visited Alexandria just to ride the streetcar "since our tram in Cairo was removed", he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
An-My, you chose Robert Frank’s picture of a streetcar in New Orleans, taken that year.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
But in Pittsburgh she felt terribly little and worried, especially after one day when she got off the streetcar in the wrong place.
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
The fair featured electric lighting and electric streetcars powered by hydroelectricity generated by Niagara Falls, reflecting a moment when electricity was beginning to move from novelty toward widespread utility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
Now, Egyptians young and old have flocked for farewell rides, before the streetcars come to a halt in April.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
Scranton’s nickname, “Electric City,” stems from its being one of the first places in the U.S. to have electric streetcars.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2025
Art students paint the trams and local bands perform in the streetcars.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2024
Through the hanging smoke, Lefty saw other streetcars letting off other workers, hundreds and hundreds of gray figures trudging across the paved courtyard toward the factory gates.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
