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unusual facts about trolley


Light rail

Its capital costs were one-third those of the San Diego Trolley, a comparably sized US system built at the same time, while by 2009 its ridership was approximately three times as high.


3027 Shavarsh

This is named after the Soviet-Armenian swimming Champion and hero Shavarsh Karapetyan, who saved over 20 people from a trolley that fell to the bottom of a lake.

401st Air Expeditionary Group

It also flew Trolley sightseeing missions at low level, flying ground support personnel over the Ruhr and Frankfurt am Main to see the damage that had been done as a result of their efforts.

Alcubierre drive

For example, if one wanted to travel to Deneb 2,600 light years away and arrive less than 2,600 years in the future according to external clocks, it would be required that someone had already begun work on warping the space from Earth to Deneb at least 2,600 years ago, in which case "A spaceship appropriately located with respect to the bubble trajectory could then choose to enter the bubble, rather like a passenger catching a passing trolley car, and thus make the superluminal journey."

Conduit current collection

Trolley lines from Brooklyn and Queens also entered Manhattan under wire, but did not use city streets.

East Tennessee Historical Society

Displays include items owned by early Tennesseans such as Davy Crockett and John Sevier, memorabilia from events such as the Appalachian expositions of 1910 and 1911, artifacts from the Battle of Fort Sanders, a complete trolley car, a drugstore display, and early country music instruments and memorabilia.

Electric Transit

Electric Transit, Inc. (ETI), a former manufacturer of trolley buses, from 1994 to 2004

FERMIAC

The Monte Carlo trolley, or FERMIAC, was an analog computer invented by physicist Enrico Fermi to aid in his studies of neutron transport.

Gantry

Gantry crane, a crane having a hoist fitted in a trolley for parallel movement

Goebel Brewing Company

In the John Bellairs book The Trolley to Yesterday and its eventual sequel The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost, the character of Brewster (really Horus, a god of Upper and Lower Egypt) is given his name because he bears a resemblance to Brewster Rooster.

Gomaco Trolley Company

Gomaco Corporation first branched out into the field of trolley manufacturing in 1982, when it was the successful bidder on a contract to supply two reproductions of "turn-of-the-century"-era trolleys/streetcars for operation on a new line due to be built at the Lowell National Historical Park, in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority

The RTA renewed its commitment to electric transit with a Board of Trustees vote to continue the trolley bus service in 1991, and the purchase of a new fleet of ETBs from Electric Transit, Inc., a joint venture of the Czech company Skoda and the U.S. company AAI Corporation, based on Skoda's model 14Tr.

Josh Devore

Devore resided in Seelyville, a small community in Vigo County, Indiana during his early pro baseball career, getting his start in what was known as the Trolley League in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Kennedy Plaza

It serves as the nexus of the state's conventional-bus and trolley-replica bus public transit services operated by Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA), as well as a departure point for Peter Pan and Greyhound bus lines.

Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles

Between 1912 and 1918, a trackless electric trolley ran up the canyon from Sunset Boulevard to the base of Lookout Mountain Road where a road house served visitors.

Lego Harry Potter: Years 1–4

The game covers a wide range of characters of the first four parts, from notable ones like Albus Dumbledore, and Severus Snape, to others like Viktor Krum in shark form or the Trolley Witch from the Hogwarts Express.

Leo A. Berg

Among his patents were the switchtrack for the trolley, and a piece integral to the conversion of the Gatling gun to the machine gun.

Liber

His temples held the image of a phallus; in Lavinium, this was the principal focus for his month-long festival, when according to St. Augustine, the "dishonourable member" was placed "on a little trolley" and taken in procession around the local crossroad shrines, then to the local forum for its crowning by an honourable matron.

Lost and Running

The video features Bernard Fanning, the band's lead vocalist, walking around dressed as a hotel porter, pushing a hotel luggage trolley as he walks through a hotel (actually Brisbane City Hall) singing.

MTV-82

Nizhny Novgorod tram & trolley museum has a third operable MTV-82 in its tramcar collection.

Newton and Boston Street Railway

It soon opened an electric trolley line between Newton Upper Falls and Newtonville, with regular service beginning August 31, 1892.

Newtown Square Branch

Passenger service ran on the line until it was terminated in 1908 due to competition from the West Chester Traction Company trolley lines.

Old Pueblo Trolley

Workers from Tucson Electric Power installed the overhead trolley wire, in some cases as volunteers.

One America Plaza

The America Plaza trolley station is located on the ground floor of the building between the main building and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society

The Trolley Park museum was formally named the Oregon Electric Railway Museum, and it retained the latter name when it moved in 1996 from Glenwood to Brooks, Oregon.

Pennsylvania Trolley Museum

In 2012, the museum adopted a cat, called Frank the Trolley Cat, after Frank J. Sprague, the inventor of the trolley wheel.

Pleasure Point, Santa Cruz, California

Helped develop Twin Lakes trolley station.Property landscaped by N.A. Beckwith with naturalistic landscape including Eucalyptus.

Richmond Union Passenger Railway

The Richmond Union Passenger Railway, in Richmond, Virginia, was the first practical electric trolley (tram) system, and set the pattern for most subsequent electric trolley systems around the world.

Sam Schwartz

Sam is currently designing a trolley system in Aruba, engineering the transportation plan for the Barclays Center- future home of the Brooklyn Nets, and orchestrating construction activities at The World Trade Center site.

Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts

Notable features include the Bridge of Flowers, a former trolley bridge over the Deerfield River that is now maintained by the Shelburne Falls Women's Club as a floral display from April through October; and the glacial potholes of the Deerfield River.

Shore Line Trolley Museum

The Shore Line Museum also owns two other trolley buses, ex-Philadelphia 210, identical to No. 205 (and acquired at the same time) and being used only as a source of parts, and ex-Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (Boston-area) 4037, a 1976 Flyer E800 which the museum acquired in 2009 and which is also able to operate on the line.

Sifton, Washington

It is notable for being the terminus of an early electric trolley operated by the Northcoast Power Company that also served nearby Orchards from 1910 until 1926.

Škoda 24Tr Irisbus

This allows the trolley to ride without kontaktstieņiem, it is sometimes used when the trolleybus is diverge from its route, but often also used in the same way when running on regular routes, such as Riga 9. and 27. trolley route.

Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!

Inside the trolley car are a number of parody advertisements based on real products of the time, including Arrow collars ("Narrow Collars"), Smith Brothers cough drops ("Sniff Brothers Cough Drops") and Fisk Tires ("Risk Tires").

SoWa

The Romanesque and Gothic Revival structure was the world’s largest electrical power station at the time and later became a trolley barn.

Spring Hill, Queensland

After its closure the trams were initially replaced with diesel buses, but in 1951 these were replaced by a trolley-bus service.

Tengku Budriah of Perlis

After the 1945 Japanese surrender she returned to Perlis with her family, travelling by train to Padang Besar, then by manually operated railway trolley (Gek-gek) to Bukit Keteri since there was no train link.

The Shootist

In a changing frontier, Books arrives at the saloon by trolley and Sweeney in an Oldsmobile Curved Dash (which debuted in 1901).

Tourist trolley

Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA); Route 55T Tourist Trolley along Pine Avenue in Niagara Falls, New York between Niagara Falls and the Niagara Falls International Airport.

Transportation in Williamsburg, Virginia

The system also provides paratransit services and operates replica trolley buses at the Yorktown Riverfront attraction.

Trolley Books

The majority of Trolley's publications are categorised as photojournalism, but they have also produced contemporary art books, for example several works by Nick Waplington including Double Dactyl (2008), Paul Fryer and Damien Hirst's: Don’t Be So… (2002) and most recently Laureana Toledo's The Limit (2009).

Trolley Books have worked closely with, and published the work of several Magnum Photos photographers including Chien-Chi Chang, Werner Bischof, Carl De Keyzer, Thomas Dworzak, Alex Majoli, Paolo Pellegrin, Ilkka Uimonen, and most notably Philip Jones Griffiths.

Willamette Shore Trolley

This temporary, trial heritage trolley service was inaugurated on September 12, 1987, and was operated by the Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society (OERHS), using a double-deck trolley originally from Blackpool, England.

Wilna Hervey

In 1919, she was cast in the role of "The Powerful Katrinka" in The Toonerville Trolley silent film series based on Fontaine Fox's Toonerville Folks comic strip, which was produced by Siegmund Lubin's Betzwood Motion Picture Studios in Pennsylvania.

Winthrop M. Crane

He was hosting President Theodore Roosevelt in Pittsfield, Massachusetts on September 3, 1902 when a speeding trolley car rammed into the open-air horse carriage carrying Roosevelt.


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