How are streetcars built?

Question

How are streetcars built?

Answer 1

Write to The Montgomery County Trolley Car Museum, Bonifant Road,  Silver Spring, MD, 20906.  They have their own shop for rebuilding the streetcars.

Answer 2

Generally trams are coachbuilt on a large section steel underframe, from which the driving truck (if 4-wheel) or Bogies (if 8-wheel) are suspended. The body is then assembled on top of the underframe.  Originally this was all wood and then wood frame/steel panels but these days its more normally steel or aluminium sections with aluminium and GRP pannelling as on a bus.

Some (especially the low-floor type) are of integral construction with the body and the underframe built as a unit.

Answer 3

Depends on the builder.