Courtesy of the San Diego Electric Railway Company Streetcars used to ply San Diego neighborhoods, as they did in Hillcrest at University Avenue at Park Boulevard in the 1940s. Now, some are being restored for incorporation into the downtown trolley system.

There's something about rail transport that excites the psyche – whether it's Thomas the Tank Engine, Hogwarts Express or a ride on the San Diego Trolley. We make most of our trips by car, get most of our goods by truck and travel the farthest by air.

The aging of America's baby boom generation was on the minds of lenders who took part in the Mortgage Bankers Association's recent convention here on commercial real estate and multifamily housing.

EDISON, N.J. – They insist it's nothing personal, this sudden vendetta lawmakers nationwide seem to have against one of Thomas Edison's most enduring contributions to the world, the incandescent light bulb.

• Fluorescent bulbs require safe disposal