Between 1908 and 1928, the mining towns now known as the City of Bisbee were connected by an electric streetcar line to provide transportation for copper miners. Buses then provided public transportation until the 1970s.

The border town of Douglas once played a key role in the local copper industry — ore from nearby Bisbee was smelted here and transported elsewhere. Between 1902 and 1924, an electric streetcar connected workers to and from the smelter works.

The gold and silver mining town of Prescott in northern Arizona lies a short distance from a former military outpost called Fort Whipple. When hundreds of returning Spanish-American War veterans recovered there, a streetcar connected the two between 1905 to 1911.

Arizona’s capital and largest city has a long history with light rail, all the way back to horsecar days in 1887. One of many victims of increasing car reliance and suburban expansion across America, it was the only streetcar in Arizona that made it to World War II.