I suppose in other cities they call them Trams or Trolleys. Here in Toronto we call them Street Cars, or sometimes just Cars ("I'll hop on the College Car and be right over"). This one is likely vintage 50's - no longer in service, it's sitting in the Transit Commission's yards:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2071579
San Francisco has a bunch of streetcars that look like this. The local Municipal Railway (aka City transit system) has bought the cars from other cities (eg Baltimore & Philadephia) when those places retired their cars. SF runs them on the surface while at the same time, there are "light rail vehicles" (modern street cars) that run underground along a good portion of the same route on Market Street. It's a nice contrast over the trolley years.
Pat in SF
