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HOW TO DESIGN STREETCAR RAILS
D.C. Example: "Implementing Streetcars Demands Consideration of the Way Traffic Works" - The Transport Politic (December 2009)
Trains: "The President's Incredible Travel System" - Megaprojects (JulY 3, 2024)
"The Fight to Save the Cable Cars" - "History" (August 4, 2021)
"San Francisco's Cable Car System the Last in the World - Bartell's Backroads - KGO TV 10 (May 3, 2024)
"How They Work: SF's Cable Cars and PCC Cars" - Rail Weekly (July 14, 2023)
"How They Work - What's Happening Out of Sight on the San Francisco Cable Cars?" - Tom Ingall (May 20, 2023)
"Railways of Philadelphia": The City That Might Be the US's Transit Capital" - RM Transit (August 10, 2024)
Naturally N'awlins: Driving a New Orleans Streetcar" - WWLTV (July 5, 2017)
"Fixing the World's Oldest Trolleys Is Like Solving a Century-Old Jigsaw Puzzle: As Mechanics at the Car Barn in Dallas Know,
you Can't Just Order a Part From 1909." - Atlas Obscura (August 17, 2023)
"'I LOVE the streetcars because being a kid and getting on the streetcar was a big thing,' Valencia says. 'We didn't
have cars, but going to Juarez was big. El Paso is known for two things: the streetcars and the alligators. They're
part of the fiber of the history of El Paso'." ....
"People want to invest in a city that's alive, that's full of culture, that's full of art,' he says. 'This is not a
project that you're going to base success off of one year, three years, or even five. This is a generational project.
The streetcar symbolizes not just El Paso for the last 100 years, but for 100 years in the future.'"
POPULATION FOLLOWS - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
A rail transit career is not only an investment in yourself,
but investment in humankind having a future.
"I Wanna Be a Streetcar Conductor" - "Our Gang"
This page shares what kind of workforce Baltimore needs for a complete Baltimore City Public Streetcar System. This page
also educates; highlights key historical issues and events. Through linking the past with Streetcar Revival, it establishes
a brilliant uplifting lifestyle for all citizens and residents, and the Baltimore Region.
"It's a Big Job" - Workforce Dedication and Recruiting Film - Los Angeles Railway (1947)
Explore burgeoning rail careers. What was it like? What is it like today, and in the future? With Streetcar revival, and
returning commerce to trains (reducing truck hauls due to Greenhouse Effect, efficiency is key to today and future rail vehicle
operators, engineers, mechanics, streetcar and train compartment designers. shipping, marketing, advertising, and more.
WHY WE LOST SKILLS - AND WE ARE PAYING FOR IT REGARDING PUBLIC TRANSPORT: "Boomers Should Love Transit" - Paige Saunders (2022)
Overhead AC powered catenaries with trolley poles or pantographs are superior to third rail and safe. AC is superior
to DC, and uses less electricity. Hybrids are used - third rail for tunnels, thereby condensing the size (and saving money),
and rest are catenaries. All trains can benefit with catenaries - makes them be able to go faster.
Some cussing. Narrator is passionately angry at those who hate streetcars....
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HOW TRAMS ~ STREETCARS WORK
Experience seeing the inner workings of streetcars:
"Millions of people come from all over the world to visit San Francisco. And what is one of the first things they all
want to do? Joyride on public transportation. And it's no wonder. The city by the bay has some of the world's most historic
and unique transit systems."
"Streetcar School: Electrical Circuits" - Minnesota Streetcar Museum
"The Urban Railway" - How a Tram Works - Engineering Channel (2021)
"Streetcar Details" - Minnesota Streetcar Museum (2022)
#3 Built in 1906 [#23] in Nelson, British Columbia - 118 Years Old
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HOW THEY ARE BUILT
Learn how streetcars are made:
Gomaco Trolley Company: Construction of #1601 & #1602 for Lowell, Massachusetts
"PCC's of North America" | Colin J. Strayer for Empire Pictures - Retro Rail Media (1985 Compilation)
"Cities want modern light rail trains and vintage-style streetcars. Most are built by foreign firms. Few know they also
are manufactured by an American company with deep roots in Rust-Belt western Pennsylvania."
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