In addition, there were 2 flat cars and a line car used to maintain the overhead wires.
Some parts of the original system have been closed down and the overhead wires removed.
However, it was closed in 2001, and the overhead wires had been completely removed by the summer of 2002.
"Yes, Tom, but there again they get their power from an overhead wire."
The conduit system was changed to overhead wires in 1899.
In 1976 the third rail was replaced by an overhead wire.
Thus no overhead wires will be needed in the historic area.
The overhead wires are so slight that you have to look hard to see them.
The overhead wires at the station can be switched from one system to the other.
The old system with overhead wire remains up to 1955.
In later years the conduit was removed and only trolley wire remained.
The line has been pantograph-only since the trolley wires were modified in the 1990s.
High platforms were installed, and trolley wire was replaced with third rail power.
The concrete standards that once supported the trolley wire are still standing on the bridge to this day.
Possible to build a single tram track or trolley wire.
In the final year, a trolley wire was installed.
The railroad's tracks still ran past the site, and the overhead trolley wires came close.
There was much rehabilitation work that had to be done to the track, the overhead trolley wires and the streetcars themselves.
The second one was closed in 1994 because of theft of trolley wire.
Concrete poles that once supported the trolley wire are still standing on the bridge to this day.