What Happens to the Famous Wildwood Tramcars in the Off-Season?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 เม.ย. 2024
- What Happens to the Famous Wildwood Tramcars in the Off-Season?
This is one question we get quite frequently.
During the off-season, the Wildwood Tramcar undergoes a comprehensive maintenance regimen to ensure its reliability and safety for the upcoming season.
Skilled technicians meticulously inspect each tramcar, addressing any wear and tear accumulated over months of continuous operation.
This maintenance includes everything from mechanical checks to cosmetic touch-ups, guaranteeing that the tramcars emerge rejuvenated and ready to traverse the boardwalk once again.
Since these are electrically powered, its batteries have to be charged a bit so that they don’t completely die.
With the decrease in demand for tramcar services, the fleet finds temporary refuge in designated storage facilities on the boardwalk.
These facilities provide protection from the elements, shielding the tramcars from the harsh winter weather that occasionally sweeps through the Jersey Shore.
But have you ever seen where they are stored? Now you can,
With permission, the Wildwood Video Archive was given permission to visit the sleepy tramcars to show you what they look like in the off-season.
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You should have interviewed my husband, he's the head mechanic who keeps the trams rolling along.
Does anyone remember in the 80’s and 90’s they used to make the voice say wa-wa-wa-watch the tram car please? The people operating them must have thought it was so cool back then.
They can still do it with one of the engines. They voice boxes have been modernized, except for two.
Very interesting thank you! Keep on educating us about Wildwood, I came here each summer from the age of 6 to 16, then came back as a young father, and last summer with 2 of my 3 daughters…the oldest one is 32!
Thank you I never knew thid stuff. the older I get the more I love the tram car
Thank you for your videos when I'm not able to be there. I know I can always watch you and feel like i'm there.
This video is awesome! 👏 nice work Joey. (But I still can’t believe the tram car tickets is up to $5 😮)
Nice feel privileged to have seen these tram cars on sleep mode
Yes the tram cars were cheeper in years past. But unlike most public transit this systems this is not subsidized by any government money. So the fares have to cover the two person crews, maintenance, and cost to charge the batteries. Hopefully the owner also makes a decent profit from running the trams. If not the day will come when “ Watch the Tram Car Please” will be a thing of the past.
Warehouses have been running fork trucks 24/5 for last 75 years. After 8 hours or so they spend 5 minutes to change out battery with a charged battery.
I see those type of batteries every day. on the equipment we use at work everyday and also the company I work for makes them that style of battery.
The batteries themselves can still be bought. We usually buy one new one per year.
We’re having trouble finding the other parts though.
The electronic control modules for the throttle, for instance. We’ve searched far and wide for new ones or someone to repair the old ones.
Many other parts are few and far between now as well.
@@DanielRosenello ok as understandable for how old they are. But you guys maintain them very well with what still available. Love riding on them after walking all day.
I asked awhile ago and Joey delivered...glad to see this video pop up😉👍
Keep em coming Joey...my wife and I love these and recently became a NW Condo resident and we have been watching your videos for 1 year and get so much helpful info....appreciate all you do to inform people like us.
I miss the rifle light-gun shooting gallery. Used to be on one of the piers- forget which one, was too young at the time. But it was basically a Wild West themed gallery, with animatronics you could interact with by shooting a nearby bullseye. Imagine if rainforest cafe had pistols to set the animals off manually. And also, a saloon piano.
I think it was at Casino pier, by the Jack Rabbit & Merry Go Round
I really enjoyed this behind the scenes video. Thanks Joey.
My wife likes the Tramcar, she takes it at the other end of the Boardwalk up to the 19th ave in N.W.. I always do a race with her, I just walk at my normal pace (a good speed), and I always win.
Great video, answered all questions!
Excellent video! 😊
Great Video Joey! I’m looking forward to another season working for the famous Wildwood Tramcars. I got to drive some of the tramcars to the garage to change their batteries. It is cool seeing the trams in the shed during the off season. It is tight but the maintenance crew knows where each tram set is placed. May 11th will be here soon.
I love the Tramcars. Great video! “Watch the Tramcar please!”
That’s interesting thanks.
Can remember paying for a 5 year membership at dinosaur Beach for my son. Of course the second year it closed up. 76 er millionaire president & part owner Pat Croce was either by the owner or part owner & nogoodnic said that people with the 5 year membership can get into his $10 million St Augustine Florida Pirate & Treasure Museum for free. Rather he stepped his rich butt up and offered refunds.
I knew they're stored at Hunts Pier. I really wish it could come back with retro rides. A smaller wooden coaster like the Flyer, the Scrambler, even some from Marine Pier. The Whip, Paratroopers, Caterpillar. $5, that's inflation! We always buy a book of 25. Even they went up $10
It looks like a forklift battery
That is so interesting. I love the tramp cars in Wildwood. I just love them.
Enjoy your Day-!!!
Great video ! The inner workings of those trams mystify a lot of people.
The price to ride the tramcar in the late 1950s early 1960s was 10 cents.
Great video as always. The trams are the one thing I had always a special connection with. The actual trams and the employees that work there. One quick question I hope you could answer. Why is there no number on the primo hoagies tramcar, and why did they switch it to that in the first place?
Awesome video Joey! I remember when they used to store them off the boardwalk in North Wildwood and they would run them 1 block up the street and up the ramp onto the boardwalk in the morning.
Also, I noticed it looks like 2 of the trams (2 & 3?) in the back corner look to be being stripped of parts possibly? I have not seen 2 run in several years
I went there in 97 for the rollerblading asa tour it was 1.50. And elks convention in 1992 was 1.00
I've been working for the trams for 9 years now for the drivers dont park the trams, and the mechanics pull them in and out a tasks in itself
Hey joey when is the construction update of april?
Sounds like they use trickle chargers and Optima batteries not lead acid. They have to test each one so that they take and retain a charge. Also fascinating re the tires and also the maintenance. Didn't know about the St Patrick Day use. They need more advertisers!!
fork trucks have the same battery setup.
$5.bucks👺 OMG I remember riding this as a kid for $1. Dollar. Yeah I'll admit that was a few years ago 😂
How many mechanics do they have?
I thought the Sunny tram car was the new prototype?
Wait did Joey just say there’s a new tram car named Gabe?? did I miss hear that
Very interesting. Only thing is, I thought there were nine tram cars? Engines one through eight which I think were the older ones and then the newer one they got a few years ago that looked a little different and was number E1? If anybody has any information about this and can tell me what I’m missing that would be great.
There are ten engines, including Sunny, or E1.
But there are only eight trains.
@@DanielRosenello oh OK! Thanks for the clarification.
Could you please see if you can help keep the tram car continue to say watch the tram car please
I'm surprised they's have trouble getting what appear to be lead-acid batteries.
It’s not the batteries that are hard to find.
It’s the electrical system that connects those batteries to the 60 year old fork lift parts that move the tram cars.
And the 60 year old forklift parts themselves.
Those batteries look a lot like the ones used in electric forklifts. There are Li battery options for those forklifts. Could they be adapted? Yeah. You'd have to get new chargers.
They are forklift batteries. The rest of the electrical system is what is outdated. And trying to change that to a more modern system has been an ongoing and very frustrating search.
Where is Dinosaur Beach-? I've never heard of that before.
Is the old Hunts Pier, which later became Dinosaur Beach for a few years. It's the Pier next to Morey's Pier heading south.
Dinosaur Beach was how Hunt’s pier rebranded trying to ride the Dino craze that got kicked off by Jurassic Park in the ‘90s. I wasn’t the biggest fan because they added dinosaurs to the abandoned mine cart ride, and I thought that thing was perfect just as it was.
@@chuckm6592ok, Hunts Pier. Yeah, I remember an old white, wooden roller coaster called the Flyer I think. Then a another small train ride that used to weave all under the supports of that roller coaster. Maybe I'm remembering it wrong, but that was back in the 70's.
It’s a forklift battery
How much do the Masons pay for gigs like this? When is your next meeting are you a Captain like Philly is?
Yo Joey C see ya'll on the beach brother from a 13th street beach bum
Promo sm
they are 75 years old and ready to be buried - when is the next Mason Meeting? am I invited?
$5 for Tram car over priced . Can remember only paying 25¢ for a tram car ride back in the 1960's. The cost if living went up 907% in last 50 years but cry baby Wildwood extremely bumpy tram car fare has increased 2,000% since then. Sure the cars & drive vehicles paid off 45 years ago. Thus small fleet should not require more then one maintenance person 7 or 8 months a year. We had 25 electric fork trucks & over 30 electric pallet jacks that ran 10/6 and one mechanic performed all the maintenance & repairs that only took up 20 hours a week. Modern OC MD tram cars earned $60,000 last year on vidio adds on Tram cars.
Yes $5.00 is very expensive.
When I was kid the tram car was 25 cents. Mid 60s
Future Tram Car driver here! lol great video!