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It's just not viable, there's literally only a single company that makes the equipment for the overhead wire system anymore and it's monstrously expensive. Or at least that's what I was told while I was working there by the mechanics when I would talk to them. And from what I was hearing it was sounding like the company that was doing it doesn't want to do it anymore so I wouldn't be surprised if the goal is to drop the overhead wire trolleys eventually
There’s got to be a reliable equipment manufacturer out there with San Francisco’s trolly bus and cable car network being the largest in the us 🤔