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Great looking project. I will be waiting to see it power down the tracks.


Now, thread hijack.
San Francisco's transit system, Municipal Railway, has many forms of transportation. I was the Maintenance Manager for a period a few years back. The following is how the shops and old-time locals refer to them.

That model is a cable car, a California Street Cable because of it has double end outside seating. Recently the suits at Muni HQ renamed the California line as Route C.
The PCCs, St Louis Cars and heritage trams from around the world are referred to streetcars.
The other vehicles on rails are the LRVs both Breda and Siemans.
Trolleys are the rubber tire buses that have two poles connecting to the wires.

The cable car museum and powerhouse is a nice place to visit and is along the Powell street cable. The cars are still hand built at the shop on 23rd and Tennessee Streets in the Dogpatch neighborhood. This shop is not opened to visitors but has a wall of windows you can see from the street. Since cable cars are a National Landmark retired cars are not allowed to be destroyed but placed in storage or donated to museums.