A veteran of WWII, Richard Parker grew up in Pawtucket, studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, and moved to New York, working in the New York advertising world. He now lives in South Kingstown.

We often say, around here, variations on “There is nothing new under the sun.”This 1950 United Electric Railways trolley photo from our archives proves it.Note this is a trackless trolley, riding on ...

Public Square, 1912 Trackless Trolley 1117 and Car 4235 at St. Clair and East 30th St. on their last day in 1951. Cleveland Transit Car 4008 and Trackless Trolley 1137 at the St. Clair Station in ...

CityDig: The Trackless Trolleys of Laurel Canyon Los Angeles later earned its reputation as a car city, but in the early 20th century it was a laboratory for innovative transportation technologies. In ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Today's archive page is from May 7, 1921. The Board of Estimate appropriates $56,000 for trackless trolleys to be set up in various outlying portions of Staten Island.

We live in a new age of trolleys and streetcars. South Lake Union was connected to downtown by rail in December 2007. Soon, the much-delayed First Hill streetcar will begin operating, and plans to ...

News came this week that Blackrock BLK, the biggest money manager in the world, is investing $118 million in a London-based startup intending to produce and sell electric municipal buses and ...