Wikipedia:WikiProject Streetcars

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.

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:

• WikiProject Buses
• WikiProject Rapid transit
• WikiProject Stations
• WikiProject Trains

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
• 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
• Grfr12345 (talk) 21:39, 31 March 2014 (UTC) Melbourne Trams
• 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)
• CplKlinger (talk · contribs) – Focus on Canadian systems. CplKlinger (talk) 15:39, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
• 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)

Assessment

Streetcars articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA				1		7	8
FL			1	1		7	9
GA			4	7		49	60
B	1	1	2	7		108	119
C		3	10	16		366	395
Start	1	1	8	69		1,120	1,199
Stub			4	184		1,119	1,307
List			3	4		75	82
Category					528		528
Disambig					25		25
File					2		2
Project					3		3
Redirect				6	282		288
Template					229		229
Other					1		1
Assessed	2	5	32	295	1,070	2,851	4,255
Unassessed						16	16
Total	2	5	32	295	1,070	2,867	4,271
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 15,894			Ω = 5.15

Goals

1. Articles on operating streetcar/tram systems (e.g. Blackpool tramway)
2. Articles on streetcar/tram systems which no longer exist or which have declined sharply (e.g. Pittsburgh Railways).
3. Articles on proposed streetcar/tram systems (e.g. Transit City)
4. Articles on technologies associated with streetcars/trams (e.g. Tramway track, Trolley pole)
5. 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:

{{User Trams WikiProject}}

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):

{{WikiProject Streetcars|class=|importance=}}

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

{{tram-stub}}

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.