Heritage streetcar and trolley site

[nxylas]

Since I know we have a few fans of ye olde-fashioned streetcars on this group, I thought I'd post a link to this site I found:

http://www.heritagetrolley.org/

[hunter]

1. Here's a nice quick technical description of old streetcars...

http://www.tmsv.org.au/papers/electrictrams.htm


http://www.tmsv.org.au/index.htm

Modern solid state power systems make streetcars more efficient and a lot easier to control, but they lack the low tech charm of the old series-parallel-resistance controllers.

I find streetcars to be very desirable because the electricity that runs them can come from a variety of sources -- solar, hydro, wind, just to name a few. It's not like liquid fueled vehicles in which the energy sources are mostly dirty and limited.