A much-needed break for the sake of Railfanservice, and also because it'll leave a few of you folks out there reeling in confusion.

If only, if only, the Ohioan sighs, looking at the things his state used to have. What if streetcars were brought back? Well, actually brought back, instead of those dreadful Optima Heritage wood-trim rubber-tired smoke-belchers. It would take a state government that didn't hate infrastructure, NOACA and various CLE+ communities not being skinflints, and the FTA having some money to spend. (Admittedly, a few of the NOACA proposals do include a heritage streetcar loop between Public Square and Ohio City that would re-open the Detroit-Superior Bridge Premetro...but that's never going to happen. This is Cleveland. We started dying in the early 1950's. Wait a sec...)

It looks like a PCC-II or CLRV (Or Tandy "Winnebago" PCC) had babies with a NovaBus, resulting in this double-ended thing. I'm not sure if they'd end up with a modernized version of the Eclipse fender in lieu of MU couplers if run singly, though. They'd also have electronic route signs, as much as I love flipsigns, guess what stops having replacement gears and motors made after about twenty-five years and becomes permanently broken?

This hypothetical design would be usable for street running and the Green/Blue/Waterfront light rail routes, and would probably replace the dedicated-lane Euclid Corridor diesel-hybrid BRTs. *ding ding tooooooot* indeed. And yes, CTS did heap their streetcars into a pile and burn them to recover the scrap metal.

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