In these shows, the illusionists used the magic lantern to trick people into thinking that they had summoned up spirits of revolutionary figures with the lantern mounted on a trolley.

An interurban trolley used to run between Parma and Jackson as well.

Although tram and tramway have been adopted by many languages, they are not used universally in English ; North Americans prefer trolley, trolleycar or streetcar.

) The word trolley is often used as a synonym for streetcar in the United States, but is usually taken to mean a cart, particularly a shopping cart, in the UK and elsewhere.

* Danish trolley, a type of wheeled shelfing unit used to transport goods in horticulture

A trolley used to connect passengers from Queens and Manhattan to a stop in the middle of the bridge, where passengers took an elevator down to the island.

Sprague's system used an overhead wire and trolley pole to collect current, with electric motors on the car's trucks.

A trolley also used to run in parts of the borough.

An old tram | trolley car is used as an emblem on signs welcoming people to Mount Rainer, reflecting the city's roots as a streetcar suburb.

In some airports a system similar to the shopping trolley deposit is also used with luggage carts as a profit making opportunity.

A trolley car was used as the first terminal at Hunter Field in the mid 1930's.

Kenny is squished by a falling trolley cart used by the Gnomes during the visit ; the Gnomes are aghast at the accident, but the boys are too fixated on their business research to express their customary outrage at Kenny's latest death.

This street used to have a trolley car that linked the historic center of Coyoacán with San Ángel and Churubusco.

This street used to have a trolley car that linked the historic center of Coyoacán with San Ángel and Churubusco.

In the case of Seattle, dual-mode ( electric / diesel electric ) buses manufactured by Breda were used until 2004, with the center axle driven by electric motors obtaining power from a trolley wire through a trolley pole in the subway, and with the rear axle driven by a conventional diesel powertrain on freeways and streets.

* Modal transportation, used in transit to describe multiple modes of transit available such as bus, trolley, train, ferry

Customers who register for the new card receive offers and vouchers from time to time, also whenever the card is used in store the customer is entered into a monthly prize draw to win one of 50 £ 100 Iceland Vouchers ( a total giveaway of £ 5, 000 in vouchers to a combined 50 customers per store ), as well as several other prizes, including in store instant reward, trolley dashes, holidays and cars.

* In Toronto, the term witch's broom is used to refer to the trolley pole on local streetcars.

The story behind this custom is that a trolley driver used to ring his bell when he was a block away from the Gran Café del Portal to let the waiters know he was coming.

To remedy the problem, traffic has been redirected away from the Hampton park entrance and trolley buses have been used to shuttle patrons.

( The term " trolley " is more often used when this assembly consists of more than a single pulley with simple hanger and bearing.

A pivoting link, such as a carabiner, is used to secure the load to the trolley so that the trolley does not have a tendency to rock in a manner that it may fall off of the cable if the load should sway.

Though some new cable car systems were still being built, by 1890 the cheaper to construct and simpler to operate electrically-powered trolley or tram started to become the norm, and eventually started to replace existing cable car systems.

Electric trolley buses operate on major routes in the City of Vancouver, with one route extending to neighbouring Burnaby.

Most trolley bus routes operate in a north – south direction.

Besides trams, trolley buses also operate, but these are operated only two hours a day.

The first street railway company in Brooklyn, New York City to operate an electric trolley line was the Coney Island & Brooklyn Railroad.

However, in all cases they are actual rail lines and not simply buses made to resemble a streetcar, although the latter are often referred to — inaccurately — as " trolleys " in the towns where they operate ( see tourist trolley ).

On weekends, selected exhibit buildings are staffed on a rotating schedule by volunteers, who also operate a vintage trolley over the length of the park, including under the Light Tower replica.

Some demonstration trolley car runs were conducted through the tunnels in 1907 ; however Belmont did not have a franchise to operate a transit line.

Dayton is the smallest city in the United States to still operate electric trolley buses.

Combined, these trolley routes convey more than 150, 000 passengers daily, and operate 24-hour schedules, even in blizzards.

The Subway – Surface Trolley Lines or Green Lines are five SEPTA trolley lines that operate on street-level tracks in West Philadelphia and Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and in a shared subway with rapid transit trains in Philadelphia's Center City.

Plans to operate a vintage trolley service on a portion of the MAX line were approved by TriMet in 1987.

The teeth will rain from his mouth like pebbles, his wife will make him cocu with fishmongers, and a trolley car will grow in his stomach.

BHRA had a fleet of 16 trolleys ( 15 PCC trolleys and a leased 1897 trolley car from Oslo, Norway ).

Restoration of Brooklyn's trolley routes was hampered due to the New York City Department of Transportation ( DOT ) withdrawing its support from the project.

It was intended to take off from a runway, mounted on the back of a large rocket-boosted trolley that would help get the craft up to " working speed ".

The terms trolley pole and trolley wheel both derive from the troller.

Although this use of " trolley " for tram was not adopted in Europe, the term was associated with " trolleybus ": a rubber-tyred vehicle without tracks, which draws its power from overhead wires.

This provided service from Georgetown to Rockville, connecting Rockville to Washington, D. C. by trolley.

His principal nonphilosophical interest, arising from his observation of trolley cars beginning at an early age, is in what now is called light rail transit.

Denver city's first professional traffic engineer from 1947 to 1953, where he oversaw the conversion of Denver Tramways to bus and trolley coach.

The trolley operated from the bridge's opening until April 7, 1957.

Two English brothers, John and Peter Waterfall, and a New Zealander, Murray Rankin, fashioned a homemade trolley from bicycle tyres and metal tubing, and began their attempt.

Every first Friday of the month, a trolley travels around Washington Street at different cafes and shops as artists showcase different pieces and may include auctions. This neighboorhod is scattered with urban blight ( within the residential section, from Caroll St east to the Brandywine Highway ).

Historically, East Hancock was important as the station from which the trolley departed to the Electric Park resort.

Other Sprague electric inventions about this time greatly improved grid electric distribution ( prior work done while employed by Thomas Edison ), allowed power from electric motors to be returned to the electric grid, provided for electric distribution to trolleys via overhead wires and the trolley pole, and provided controls systems for electric operations.

The trolley was pulled from Ontario to Upland by a mule, which then climbed aboard an attached trailer for the ride back down.

Although the resort was initially dependent upon railroad and electric trolley service, the completion of Virginia Beach Boulevard in 1922, which extended from Norfolk to the oceanfront, opened the way for automobiles, buses, trucks, and passenger rail service, the latter of which was eventually discontinued.

Through the early 1950s there were trolley ( interurban railroad ) lines in the median strip of Woodward Avenue from downtown Detroit to Pontiac.

In 1904, the Pacific Electric opened the trolley line known as " Big Red Cars " from Los Angeles to Whittier.

In the early 20th Century progress arrived to re-stitch the town economically with the outer world, first in 1906 in the form of a trolley line that traversed North Stonington on its way from Westerly to Norwich.

This land became the site of the Delaware State Fair from 1917 to 1928, and provided a large parking area and ready access from the nearby trolley line.

A single-track trolley line ran through the community from Washington to Bladensburg.

Called the Washington, Spa Spring and Gretta Railroad, the trolley was eventually discontinued in 1923, partially due to competition from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the streetcar line in Mount Rainier.