TRAMS AND STREETCARS CAN CLIMB STEEP GRADES.

There has been a lot of discussion that light rail can’t climb steep grades, despite the fact that there are scores of examples elsewhere that they can. A tram descending a 9.5% grade in Mainz, Germany. Steepest ever in Germany was Neunkirchen/Saar with 11.2%: While in the USA, the Pittsburgh streetcars climbed a 12.5% grade.