On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 09:43 PM, Ken Howard wrote:
A slight diversion but horse trams only had one driving end. Some systems used balloon loops and others had the body of the tram mounted on the chassis using a turntable arrangement. On arriving at the end of the line the driver would unlock the body and using the horse, the body was rotated on the chassis until the tram was facing back the way it had come an ready for the return trip. No need to unhitch the horse. It would make a model with a difference if one could build it.
In the UK it was common place for the horse to be unhitched and walked to the other end of the tramcar; YouTube link to a horse tram in operation at a museum:
Very much a tourist attraction, but the Douglas Bay Horse Tram on the Isle of Man operates in a similar way:
Steven B.
