Riverfront Loop

Riverfront Loop
Trolley approaching the Jefferson Street (Avenue) station.
Overview
Status	Temporarily suspended since 2014[1]
Locale	Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Stations	18
Service
Type	Heritage streetcar
System	MATA Trolley
Operator(s)	Memphis Area Transit Authority
History
Opened	October 1, 1997 (1997-10-01)[2]
Technical
Track length	4.1 mi (6.6 km)
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Electrification	Overhead lines
Route map Legend Maintenance facility M North End Terminal I Overton S Pyramid Arena I-40 Hernando de Soto Bridge S Convention Center I Civic Center Plaza S Jefferson Street S Court I Madison Avenue Line P Madison P Union Avenue I Union Peabody Place Beale Street R Beale Street Landing I Dr. M.L. King Jr. V Huling E Huling Avenue R Butler Central Station Main Street Line This diagram: view talk edit

The Riverfront Loop is a line of the Memphis Area Transit Authority trolley system. It began operation in 1997, as the second line in the system. It runs for 4.1 mi (6.6 km) through downtown Memphis and along the Mississippi riverfront, with 18 stops along the way. It is the longest of the system's three lines, though it is concurrent with the Main Street Line for about half of its length. Part of the line offers panoramic views of the Mississippi River from atop to the Chickasaw Bluffs.^[3]

Trolley service on this line has been suspended since June 2014, after two trolley cars caught fire within a span of about six months. Buses have been serving the Riverfront Loop since then, but MATA plans to restore trolley operation to the line eventually.^[4] In September 2021, MATA was predicting that the line would reopen in late 2022,^[5] but as of December 2022 the service remained suspended, with no predicted date for the planned reopening.^[1]