Wikipedia:WikiProject Streetcars

This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to urban rail transportation systems. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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WP:TRAM

Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to expand Wikipedia coverage of urban, suburban, and interurban public transport rail services, including funiculars, horsecars, cable cars, trams, interurban, light rail, heritage streetcars and similar systems.

We want to expand information and articles to include historical, current, and future time periods. Subjects should include people, companies, technology, vehicles, rights of way, and systems. Some of these may form the basis later for a split as this project progresses. Essentially, we are limiting subjects to land-based transportation of people the majority of whom are traveling 40 miles or less one-way to and from home, school, and places of employment on services. (revised 1-5-2004)

Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Transport

Descendant WikiProjects

Wikiproject UK Trams

Similar WikiProjects

Similar WikiProjects are:

Related WikiProjects

Commons:WikiProject BSicon for route diagrams

Participants

Mackensen (talk) - mostly the midwest US, and Pittsburgh
SPUI - mostly New Jersey and Central Florida, also doing NYC
Vaoverland - mostly eastern U.S., especially Richmond, VA
Cecropia | explains it all � - North American practice]
Skybum -- Portland, OR, but familiar with the US west in general
n2xjk -- a trolley kinda guy in North Carolina.
SkaBat169 -- Currently employed in design of LRT in North America.
Rhallanger - Western U.S., especially California.
Cranor - Washington, D.C.
Trolleychai - Shore Line Trolley Museum
Evan C - Melbourne, Australia
Kneiphof - interested in trams from all over the world
Lostvalley - Trams in Zürich, Switzerland.
Jack Gordon 15:57, 12 July 2007 (UTC) - Trams from all over the world - main focus: National Tramway Museum, Britain[reply]
Iaineight Intrested In Trams In Japan
D.A. Borgdorff: 86.83.155.44 (talk) - Previously designer of The Hague LRT.
Kjet - Tram and light rail in the Nordic countries (Finland in particular).
Arsenikk—Tramways in Norway, and other places.
YB3 (talk · contribs)
Scillystuff (talk · contribs) - Trolleys around Pittsburgh, plus a couple of UK tram systems.
Bahnfrend (talk · contribs) - Trams in Central Europe and Western Australia.
Nconwaymicelli (talk · contribs) - Streetcars in Syracuse, New York.
Psjk2106 - Streetcars in Hiroshima.
LPBrennan - Florida street railways especially.
Fremantle99 (talk) 21:01, 11 December 2013 (UTC) Melbourne Trams[reply]
Grfr12345 (talk) 21:39, 31 March 2014 (UTC) Melbourne Trams[reply]
Radagast - Ontario, Canada (Waterloo Region, Toronto, Ottawa)
OxonAlex (talk) - Mostly tramways of mainland Europe, and the Metrolink.
User: Tram1203 - Tram Museum Ballarat,Victoria,Australia
1951bfrj - Southern California, some Florida
Julius177 (talk · contribs): Mainly interurban and streetcar systems in Ontario.
Central Corridor (talk · contribs): Twin Cities and Midwest
ThylacineHunter (talk · contribs) (Victoria, Australia)
Buttons0603 – UK tramways. Buttons0603 (talk) 14:17, 15 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
CplKlinger (talk · contribs) – Focus on Canadian systems. CplKlinger (talk) 15:39, 22 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
296cherry (talk · contribs) - Interested in sleek, modern trams and streetcars. Familiar with the Dallas Streetcar.
Mattdaviesfsic (talk · contribs) - UK systems
AsimovtheCat (talk · contribs) – Minnesota Systems, Vienna, Seattle AsimovtheCat (talk) 05:53, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Arhan2212 (talk) - Obscure tram systems around the world.

Assessment

Streetcars articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Other	???	Total
FA				1			7	8
FL			1	1			7	9
GA			4	7			49	60
B		1	2	10			112	125
C	1	3	10	17			383	414
Start	1	1	9	71			1,135	1,217
Stub			3	184			1,081	1,268
List			3	4			76	83
Category					155	3		158
Disambig					26			26
File					1			1
Project					2			2
Redirect				6	208			214
Template					56			56
NA					2			2
Assessed	2	5	32	301	450	3	2,850	3,643
Unassessed							9	9
Total	2	5	32	301	450	3	2,859	3,652
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 15,844			Ω = 5.12

Goals

Articles on operating streetcar/tram systems (e.g. Blackpool tramway)
Articles on streetcar/tram systems which no longer exist or which have declined sharply (e.g. Pittsburgh Railways).
Articles on proposed streetcar/tram systems (e.g. Transit City)
Articles on technologies associated with streetcars/trams (e.g. Tramway track, Trolley pole)
Articles on persons associated with streetcars/trams (e.g. Frank J. Sprague)

Pages needing attention

Improve stubs: Category:Tram stubs

Templates

Add the following to your user page:

to create:

This user is a member of the Trams WikiProject

Add the following to the talk page of an article to place it within this project's Category:WikiProject Streetcars articles (and please note that other parameters may be specified in the template):

Add the following template to the bottom of a relevant (stub or very short) article. Note WP:LAYOUT for placement recommendations:

articles then placed into the Category:Tram stubs can then be examined and hopefully expanded.

Similarly, the template {{europe-tram-stub}} places articles into the Category:Europe tram stubs, {{UK-tram-stub}} places articles into Category:United Kingdom tram stubs. The {{Norway-tram-stub}} template will place an article into both the Category:Europe tram stubs and Category:Norway rail transport stubs.