American Dream

Helsinki, Finland never abandoned its extensive tram (streetcar) network in the core areas of the city - a system that dates back over 100 years. Strangely, even though Finland's mainline railroads use Russian imperial (broad) 5 foot/1524 mm gauge (a consequence of Finland having been the Grand Duchy of Finland (under the Russian crown) from 1809 to 1917), the Helsinki trams have always used narrow (1 m) gauge.

This particular tram was retired from regular revenue service some years ago, and converted into the SpåraKOFF tram. "Spår" means track in Swedish (the "other" official language in Finland), and Koff is short for Sinebrychoff, the brewery that brews Koff, and probably the biggest such company in Finland.