Tags: Public Transit System.
For just under 100 years between 1862 and 1962 streetcars in Washington D.C. transported people across the city and region.The first streetcars in Washington D.C. were drawn by horses and carried people short distances on flat terrain; but the introduction of cleaner and faster electric streetcars capable of climbing steeper inclines opened up the hilly suburbs north of the old city and in Anacostia.
