Also called: Vintage Streetcar Mechanic, Streetcar Restoration Technician
Keeps 100-year-old streetcars running on city lines like New Orleans and San Francisco, often making parts by hand.
In a New Orleans car barn, you rebuild the brakes on a 1923 streetcar. Since no one sells the parts, you machine a new brass bushing and rewire the old controller before it goes back on St. Charles Avenue.
Estimated; union transit pay.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Apprenticeship, about 3 years after high school. Mechanical or electrical training plus on-the-job learning at the agency.
Ways in: Apprenticeship, On-the-job training, Trade school. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Majors to look at: Industrial Maintenance Technology, Machining Technology.
Growing slowly. A handful of US cities run heritage streetcars.
Low risk for 10 years. Antique streetcars need hand-made parts and fixes; automation does not apply.
Classes: Machine shop, Electricity, U.S. History.
Official data: O*NET occupation 49-3043.
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