The Canal St. Streetcar, New Orleans

This is not the "Streetcar Named Desire." This is a fully functional streetcar (what out-of-towners call a trolly). It has steel wheels and rail tracks like a train and is run with electric cable wires above the car. This is a fully functional streetcar on Canal St. which runs from the Canal Cemeteries to downtown to the Mississippi River front and the French Quarter and part of the Faubourg Marigny near Esplanade Ave. In fact, I ride this all the time when I go to the Boggs Literacy Center at Loyola University, the HQ for Literacy*AmeriCorps New Orleans. I just thought visitors to our blog would like to see this very unusual form of transportation seen only in New Orleans.

-- Adrian