Like many other primitive tram roads - or plateways as they are sometimes called - the Gloucester and Cheltenham Tramroad offered a smoother alternative to contemporary highways for horse-drawn waggons.

He was responsible for the construction of the tram road in 1847 from Lonaconing to Clarysville, Maryland.

A logging railroad describes railroads, pole roads, tram roads, or similar infrastructure used to transport harvested timber from a logging site to a sawmill.

To transport the timber, he built approximately 100 miles (160 km) of tram road known as the Gulf, Sabine and Red River Railroad.

Although it was never completed the two parts [i.e. North Section and South Section] were linked with a 'temporary' tram road.

Ironically, the tram road survived and the canal did not.

When the area's oil booms and virgin pine gave out, road crews pulled up the rails in 1934, the right-of-way was purchased by the county and the tram road became a county road.

In 2007, stations began to add electric tram road maps with detail of the various terminals and sub-stations and the six routes.

They set up turpentine stills and built tram roads, allowing for the railroad to come into the territory.

This tram road beside us will be a triumph of design.