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The line starts uptown, an Carollton Avenue & Claiborne Avenue. It runs through the Carrollton neighborhood towards the Mississippi River, then near the river levee on to Saint Charles Avenue. It proceeds past entrances to Audubon Zoo, Tulane University and Loyola University New Orleans, continues through the Garden District , and ends at Canal Street in the Central Business District at the edge of the French Quarter, a distance of about fifteen miles.

The line still uses streetcars which were common all over the United States in the early parts of the 20th century.

Most of the streetcars currently on the line are Pearly-Thomas cars dating from the 1920s. One 1890s vintage streetcar is still in running condition; it is used for maintenance and special uses.

History

The line was founded as the New Orleans and Carollton Rail Road Company in February 1833. Service began in 1835Events January 1 Ole Pedersen Hoiland breaks into the Bank of Norway and steals 64. 000 dalers January 7 HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago. January 30 Unsuccessful assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson in the United States Cap, originally without a dedicated right-of-way, although one was eventually established in the neutral ground (the medianThis article is about the statistical method, for alternative meanings see Median. In statistics, the median is that value that separates the highest half of the sample from the lowest half. More precisely 1/2 of the population will have values less than). Over the early years the cars were powered by horses, mules, overhead cables, ammoniaAmmonia is a chemical compound with the formula. The molecule is not flat, but has the shape of a flattened tetrahedron known as a trigonal pyramid''. In solution it forms the positively charged ammonium ion , which has the shape of a regular tetrahedron. engines, and steam engineA steam engine is a heat engine that makes use of the potential energy that exists as pressure in steam, converting it to mechanical work. Steam engines were used in pumps, locomotive trains and steam ships, and were essential to the Industrial Revolutions. It was electrified in 1893Events January 1 Japan accepts the Gregorian calendar January 2 Introduction by Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America: Railroad chronometers January 13 The Independent Labour Party of the UK has its first meeting. Janua.

Post World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough, like in many US cities, many of the city's numerous streetcar lines were changed to buses. Preservationists protested the dismatling of the Canal Street streetcar line in the early 1960sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Years: 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around. While they were unsucessful in saving the Canal line (which the city would bring back 40 years later), the preservationists succeeding in getting the city government to grant the Saint Charles line protected historic status.

In the Carrolton neighborhood the New Orleans Regional Transit AuthorityThe New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (or RTA is a body established by the Louisiana State Legislature in 1979; since 1983 it has controlled bus and light-rail service in the City of New Orleans. Previously, public mass transit, electric, and natural has a streetcar barn where the streetcars of the city's lines are stored and maintained. The shop there has become adept at duplicating any part needed for the cars, and converted some modern streetcars into near duplicates in appearance of the old cars for the city's newer streetcar lines.