Squaw has it all, from classic fixed grips, cranking detachables, Alp-like trams and the only funitel like a gondola, but on two ropes, for faster and safer rides in high winds in the United States.
It is more like an above-ground subway than a collection of bus routes, with seven intersecting lines, enclosed stations that are entered through turnstiles with the swipe of a fare card and coaches that feel like trams inside.
Overhead, spot-lights hang from a complex, criss-crossing structure of wires, like a tram junction in eastern Europe.
With my personal freedom being restricted in various ways, I felt like the tram that moved in "predestinate grooves".
Like the tram power station before it, the museum that has occupied the same space for almost 30 years looks set to finally close its doors.
A few of these are worrying (Istanbul's mayor is quoted as saying that democracy is like a tram: you take it where you want to go, and then you get off).
Like a tram on wheels - that's how the 'Glider' buses for Belfast city centre have been described.
