Editing New Orleans (section)

====Streetcars====
[[File:Canal St NOLA CBD Sept 2009 St Charles Astor Redcar.JPG|alt=|thumb|A New Orleans [[Streetcars in New Orleans|streetcar]] traveling down Canal Street]]
[[File:New Orlean Streetcars.svg|thumb|Streetcar network]]

{{Main|Streetcars in New Orleans}}
New Orleans has four active [[Tram|streetcar lines]]:
* The [[St. Charles Streetcar Line]] is the oldest continuously operating streetcar line in the U.S.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2018/11/st-charles-avenues-streetcar/ |title=St. Charles Avenue's Streetcar {{!}} Inside Adams: Science, Technology & Business |last=Terrell |first=Ellen |date=November 28, 2018 |website=blogs.loc.gov |access-date=November 13, 2019 |archive-date=November 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191113194151/https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2018/11/st-charles-avenues-streetcar/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The line first operated as local rail service in 1835 between Carrollton and downtown New Orleans. Operated by the Carrollton & New Orleans R.R. Co., the locomotives were then powered by steam engines, and a one-way fare cost 25 cents.<ref>{{cite book |title=Streetcars of New Orleans |author=Hennick, Louis C. and Elbridge Harper Charlton |year=2005 |publisher=Jackson Square Press |page=14 |location=Gretna, LA |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X2Zu8CSRFZAC |isbn=978-1455612598 |access-date=October 19, 2020 |archive-date=January 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240110085309/https://books.google.com/books?id=X2Zu8CSRFZAC |url-status=live }}</ref> Each car is a historic landmark. It runs from Canal Street to the other end of St. Charles Avenue, then turns right into South Carrollton Avenue to its terminal at Carrollton and Claiborne.
* The [[Riverfront Streetcar Line]] runs parallel to the river from Esplanade Street through the French Quarter to Canal Street to the Convention Center above Julia Street in the Arts District.
* The [[Canal Streetcar Line]] uses the Riverfront line tracks from the intersection of Canal Street and Poydras Street, down Canal Street, then branches off and ends at the cemeteries at City Park Avenue, with a spur running from the intersection of Canal and Carrollton Avenue to the entrance of City Park at Esplanade, near the entrance to the New Orleans Museum of Art.
* The [[Rampart–Loyola Streetcar Line]] opened on January 28, 2013, as the ''Loyola-UPT Streetcar Line'' running along Loyola Avenue from [[New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal]] to Canal Street, then continuing along Canal Street to the river, and on weekends on the Riverfront line tracks to French Market. The French Quarter Rail Expansion extended the line from the Loyola Avenue/Canal Street intersection along Rampart Street and St. Claude Avenue to Elysian Fields Avenue. It no longer runs along Canal Street to the river, or on weekends on the Riverfront line tracks to French Market.

The city's streetcars were featured in the [[Tennessee Williams]] play ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire (play)|A Streetcar Named Desire]]''. The streetcar line to Desire Street became a bus line in 1948.