What is the technical difference between a light-rail train and an Amtrak train?

JonMyrlennBailey said:
San Francisco's Streamline Vintage Streetcars in 4K - Bing video

SF Muni(cipal) streetcar lines use letters, bus lines use numbers, cable car lines use street names.

San Francisco had PCC streetcars too. The original Muni ones were ivory and green. I rode one once in 1973 up and down Market Street and that's it. My grandmother got hit by one and broke her arm.SF Muni(cipal) streetcar lines use letters, bus lines use numbers, cable car lines use street names.

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Interesting and sad regarding your grandmother. When my dad was in high school, his English teacher made his students recite this.

A little boy asks.
Mother, mother what is that, it looks like strawberry jam?
Hush, my dear she says. It's your Pa run over by a tram!

Anyway...
SF Muni purchased those infamous Boeing LRVs as well at the same time and like Boston had numerous problems with them.

In the late 1970s and well into the 1980s, the problems with the Boeings were so bad that the MBTA took out their aging fleet of PCC trolleys and put them back into revenue service. Today, all but a handful have been scrapped, or sent to some trolley museums. A number of them live on up at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunk Port, Maine.

The active handful are used in revenue service on the disconnected Ashmont to Milton segment. Even though this is a trolley line, it's considered part of the heavy-rail third-rail Red line. The service was opened in the early 1920s when the New Haven abandoned the Milton end of that branch and only served the mills. That service ended in the 1980s and today, that portion too is now a walking trail that parallels the trolley line. The PCC trolleys that run on that segment were recently refurbed and repainted and are quite popular amongst both the public as well as rail fans. Hmm... I wonder if the "T" were to return the PCC trolleys on a now closed segment, that the public would have been more accepting. Instead, the NIMBYs came out and via a court order had the tracks ripped up instead in favor of stinky busses. Yes. They wanted buses!

Interesting and sad regarding your grandmother. When my dad was in high school, his English teacher made his students recite this.A little boy asks.Mother, mother what is that, it looks like strawberry jam?Hush, my dear she says. It's your Pa run over by a tram!Anyway...SF Muni purchased those infamous Boeing LRVs as well at the same time and like Boston had numerous problems with them.In the late 1970s and well into the 1980s, the problems with the Boeings were so bad that the MBTA took out their aging fleet of PCC trolleys and put them back into revenue service. Today, all but a handful have been scrapped, or sent to some trolley museums. A number of them live on up at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunk Port, Maine.The active handful are used in revenue service on the disconnected Ashmont to Milton segment. Even though this is a trolley line, it's considered part of the heavy-rail third-rail Red line. The service was opened in the early 1920s when the New Haven abandoned the Milton end of that branch and only served the mills. That service ended in the 1980s and today, that portion too is now a walking trail that parallels the trolley line. The PCC trolleys that run on that segment were recently refurbed and repainted and are quite popular amongst both the public as well as rail fans. Hmm... I wonder if the "T" were to return the PCC trolleys on a now closed segment, that the public would have been more accepting. Instead, the NIMBYs came out and via a court order had the tracks ripped up instead in favor of stinky busses. Yes. They wanted buses!