Little Rock — Better Control

Rail Transit Online, September 2005

Two replica Birney streetcars under construction by Gomaco Trolley Co. for Little Rock’s River Rail will be equipped with modern controllers at a cost of $30,000 each.  River Rail’s three existing Birneys have reconditioned units salvaged from Peter Witt cars that were delivered to the Milan, Italy, transit system in the late 1920s.  The new controllers will have infinite speed control, simplified operation and require less maintenance.  The new cars, scheduled to arrive next February, will cost a total of $1.735 million and are needed for a short extension to the Bill Clinton Presidential Center.