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The Goldbelt Tram (formerly Mount Roberts Tramway) is an aerial tramway located directly south of downtown Juneau in the U.S. state of Alaska. In operation since 1996, the tram makes a six-minute ascent of 3,819-foot (1,164 m) up Mount Roberts from the cruise ship docks (just feet above sea level) to a height of about 1,800 feet (550 m).
The Melbourne tram network is the longest tram system by route length. The New Orleans streetcar system was one of the first in the world and it is the oldest system still in operation. The following is a list of cities that have current tram/streetcar (including heritage trams/heritage streetcars ), or light rail systems as part of their ...
Many towns planned tramways that were not built. So-called "paper tramways" are beyond the scope of this list. However, in a small number of cases, construction of a town tramway system was started (and, in a very few cases, completed) but the system did not open for public service. These are tabulated if known.
The city is named after a gold prospector from Quebec, Joe Juneau, although it was once called Rockwell and then Harrisburg (after Juneau's co-prospector, Richard Harris). The Tlingit name of the town is Dzántik'i Héeni transl. Base of the Flounder's River, and Auke Bay just north of Juneau proper is called Áak'w transl. Little Lake in Tlingit.
Volchansk is the smallest Russian town with a tram. [6] It is located 2105 km east of Moscow and 452 km north of Yekaterinburg. [7] The Volchansk tram service started on December 31, 1951. [6] At that time, Volchansk did not have the status of a "town". Reaching a peak population of around 36,000 people, it was declared a town in 1956. [7]
Buenos Aires (once known as the City of Trams) had one of the world's most extensive networks, with over 857 km (535 mi) of track. [10] Most of it was dismantled during the 1960s in favor of bus transportation. The Anglo-Argentine Tramways Company opened Latin America's first underground tram system, Subte Line A, in 1913.
From the mid-19th century onwards, horse-drawn trams or horsecars were used in cities around the world. In the late 1880s electrically powered street railways became technically feasible following the invention of a trolley pole system of collecting current by American inventor Frank J. Sprague who installed the first successful system at Richmond, Virginia.
The smallest municipality by population is Kupreanof with 21 residents. [2] The largest municipality by land area is Sitka which spans 2,870.34 sq mi (7,434.1 km 2), while Kiana is the smallest at 0.19 sq mi (0.49 km 2). [6] The first city to incorporate was Ketchikan in 1901 and the newest municipality is Whale Pass which incorporated in 2017 ...