A teenager named David Wilson toted his Brownie Hawkeye camera all over Philadelphia in the late 1960s, photographing the city’s trolleys, trains and buses. In doing so, he inadvertently created a portrait not only of the city’s transit, but also its neighorhoods

The Route 23 trolley hasn’t been in service for more than two decades, yet its tracks still pose a hazard to bicyclists. Now there’s a plan to pave over the tracks at some Center City intersections, much to the dismay of some trolley advocates, who have long hoped the #23 would make a comeback

Once upon a time, the Fairmount Park trolley carried passengers to all of the West Park’s attractions, including Chamounix Mansion. Though the trolley has been gone nearly 70 years, many of its remnants can be found, including this bridge profiled by Brad Maule

New York’s Grand Central Terminal has marked its 100th birthday with a yearlong celebration. Here in Philadelphia, Mike Szilagyi writes, a lesser known but no less important transit facility, West Philly’s Callowhill Depot, also celebrates its first century

Planners are eying a new fleet of ground level trolley cars for future use on the 15 and the subway-surface routes. In the meantime, wait until April to see the old streamliner cars again

The vast J.G. Brill trolley and rail car plant in Southwest Philadelphia got torn down almost 60 years ago, but a single building somehow managed to survive