Until internal combustion became cheap, he had to be near a railroad siding and a trolley line or an existing large community of lower-class homes.

In 1890, the first trolley line began operation down Water Street, connecting Augusta with Gardiner and Hallowell to the south.

In 1932, the motor buses replaced the trolley line.

Designed by electric power pioneer Frank J. Sprague, the trolley system opened its first line in 1888, and electric streetcar lines rapidly spread to other cities across the country.

* Beverly Boulevard ( SEPTA station ), trolley line station in in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, USA once known as Beverly Hills

A trolley line in the broad, tree-lined median of Euclid Avenue formerly connected Upland to the Southern Pacific Railroad line in Ontario.

In 1904, a trolley line was built connecting Fairfax with Washington, D. C.

Round-trip trolley ticket on the St. Tammany and New Orleans Railways and Ferry Co., punched to be good on line between Mandeville, Louisiana | Mandeville and Covington, Louisiana | Covington, Louisiana, for date of December 30, 1915

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.

The trolley line ran for 15 years, until bankrupted by the opening of the Route 2 highway for automobiles on the old Westerly-Norwich stage road.

Not only did the trolley line provide transportation to the amusement park for urban dwellers, but also made commuting to downtown jobs feasible for suburban dwellers.

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.

* Trolley Square – settled in the 1860s after the city's trolley line had extended into farmland once owned by the Shallcross and Lovering families.

By the late 19th century, the area was privileged with stops along a train route, and by the early 20th century with its own trolley tracks on the line connecting Georgetown and Rockville ( along current-day Fleming Avenue ).

A second railroad entered the community when the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway electric trolley line commenced service in 1908.

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.

The town was also once the home of Lincoln Park, ( 1894-1987 ) a former amusement park which dated from the late 19th century as a park-stop along the trolley line ( and US Route 6 ) from Fall River to New Bedford just east of the junction of Lake Noquochoke and the Westport River.

The Massachusetts Turnpike exit in Ludlow In the early 20th century Ludlow developed from a mill town into a streetcar suburb of Springfield, Massachusetts, as a trolley line ran over the bridge from Indian Orchard.

They were known as trolley parks, and were placed at the end of the line to attract or encourage use of the public transportation system.

( The first electric trolley in the State of New Jersey operated over a section of this line.

Electric trolley cars began running the line in 1893 and by about 1900 a branch of this line also ran down Valley Street into Maplewood.

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.

It was extended in 1911 to Black Diamond to connect to the Charleroi to Pittsburgh interurban trolley.

Some proponents of the Trolley Project hope to see trolley service extended to a northern re-extension of removed track to the southern tip of Lake Sammamish.

An interurban trolley line was constructed through the town with a terminus at the Hampton Terrace, dubbed the Augusta – Aiken Railway and Electric Corporation and later extended to Aiken.

The " hammerhead ", or giant cantilever, crane is a fixed-jib crane consisting of a steel-braced tower on which revolves a large, horizontal, double cantilever ; the forward part of this cantilever or jib carries the lifting trolley, the jib is extended backwards in order to form a support for the machinery and counterbalancing weight.

The trolley lines kept growing, until by 1910 they extended completely around the lake and a round trip could be made on a separate line going back to the city.

In 1891 a trolley line was extended from Fremont along the eastern shore and around the northern end of Green Lake.

The Springfield Street Railway extended its line to the park in 1900 and although Riverside was at the end of the Springfield Street Railway, it was not owned by the railway and is therefore not considered a trolley park, contrary to published reports.

Trolley wire were extended to the station in early 1986 to bring trolley buses to the bus loop.

Public transportation which had been provided by the lake steamers, or by horse-drawn carriages over tortuous muddy paths, improved in the 1890s when the Jamestown Street Railway Company extended its trolley line from Celoron to Lakewood.

In addition, the trolley has not generated new ridership since its reopening, a point of contention for supporters of a resumed Media / Elwyn Line to Wawa and an extended Fox Chase Line to Newtown to serve suburban areas lacking alternate public transport.

In 1897, a local entrepreneur extended his electric trolley car line to Buckroe, opened a hotel, a pavilion for dancing and an amusement park.

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.

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.

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.

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