Daniel Burnham, the architect of the 1893 Columbian Exposition, knew how to think big. For that fair, he conjured up from his imagination an entire city, complete with roadways, lakes, bridges, parks ...
The Sandia Peak Tramway is often called an engineering marvel, spanning 2.7 miles.The concept to the tram was developed in the early 1960s by Robert Nordhaus and Ben Abruzzo, who were the two original ...
Two long-lost marvels of seaside innovation are now a distant memory - but their fascinating stories still linger along the ...
The idea was monumental; a project that would easily entice visitors to the desert and would simultaneously build the town ...
The Roosevelt Island tram, one of New York’s most curious pieces of transportation infrastructure, also has a strange bureaucratic quirk: since 1995, it has operated without an agreement from the city ...
Frankfurt, Germany, 1946: American soldiers board the Roundup, a special tram provided by the city of Frankfurt to transport them to and from their barracks. Want more of Stars and Stripes’ historic ...
Render of the West Yorkshire mass transit system tram passing through Leeds City Centre. Credit: West Yorkshire Combined Authority. For many years, the UK city of Leeds has held the rather unfortunate ...
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