streetcars in K Street, Sacramento, California

 

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Sacramento converted from horse to electric battery power in 1889 briefly for a couple of years before adopting overhead electric trolley lines. On weekends in summer, services took people out to Joyland, an amusement park in Oak Park. From 1906 the streetcars were operated by Pacific Gas and Electric.

As elsewhere the halcyon days of the tram/streetcar were the 1920s and early 1930s when competition from cars and buses began to reduce ridership. Some of Sacramento's streetcar lines were abandoned in the late 1930s. WW2 and resource shortages slowed down the demise of the streetcars, but after the war ended came the rapid abandonment of the streetcar lines and they had gone by 1947, although 40 years later the era of light rail began. And today there are plans to bring the city streetcars back - details