Lisbon, Portugal operates 5 tram lines using 45 four wheelers and 10 modern articulated trams. Lisbon is full of narrow streets and steep hills and there is always another photo angle available.
The four wheel trams are not Brills. The bodies were built in the Carris workshops in the 1930s to modified Portuguese design with a simpler window system than the Brill Semi-Convertible. The Remodelados, as they are known have AEG trucks, Kiepe traction controllers and Skoda traction motors and generally sound much like a PCC apart from some noisy compressors. The gauge is 900mm or just under 3 feet.
But there are still some Brills in the Carris fleet--four rarely seen single truck work motors dating back to the early 1900s and there are several Brills preserved in the Carris Museum located in the Santo Amaro shops.
The Remodelados use trolley poles with trolley wheels on routes 12 and 28 because of close clearances with balconies on along the lines. Lines 15, 18 and 25 use pantographs and the modern articulated trams only run on line 15 which runs on relatively flat land along the Tagus River.
Until 1996 Carris (which means Rails in Portuguese) operated 1906 vintaged double truck Brill Semi-Convertible trams on the riverside lines.
