California car (streetcar)

A California car is a type of tram including both an enclosed seating compartment and a roofed seating area without sides. These cars were popular in California's mild Mediterranean climate[1] offering passengers a choice of shaded outdoor seating during hot weather, or more protected seating during cool or rainy weather.[2] California cars are operational on the San Francisco cable car system.[3]

This San Francisco cable car illustrates the typical California car arrangement of an enclosed central seating compartment with open seating on either end of the car.

Sources
  1. Minnich, Ben. "Los Angeles California 521". Seashore Trolley Museum. New England Electric Railway Historical Society. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
  2. Burg, William (2006). Sacramento's Streetcars. Arcadia Publishing. p. 21. ISBN 0738531472.
  3. "California Street Cable Car Roster". Cable Car Museum. Friends of the California Cable Car Museum. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
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