Power plant producing electric power for relativistic trams says: Trams have large longitudinal relativistic masses, that's why it takes a lot of energy to accelerate a tram.
This is based on Doppler shift of EM-waves and the fact that said waves have momentum:
A tram moving away from the power plant says: I am not receiving much energy from those overhead AC-lines, the frequency is low and so is voltage. But the momentum of the energy is pushing me forwards with a small force.
A tram moving towards the power plant says: I am receiving lot of energy from those overhead AC-lines, the frequency is extra high and so is voltage. But the momentum of the energy is pushing me backwards with a large force.
(Energy flows in the overhead line and tram moves either to the upstream direction, "towards the plant" or to the downstream direction, "away from the plant")