As I got off the trolley at Kehl bridge the next morning, I was met by what looked like 5,000 students, some of whom were carrying sticks apparently for the coming `` battle '' with the police.

This had a pleasant effect upon the Sunday gate receipts as well as upon the intake of the rail and bus companies, some of which began to offer special excursion rates, including seats at the park, just as the trolley and ferry companies had when baseball was new.

In parallel to the development of the bus was the invention of the electric trolleybus, typically fed through trolley poles by overhead wires, which actually preceded, and in many urban areas outnumbered, the conventional engine powered bus.

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

As of June 30, 2003, BHRA was ordered to remove and fill in all trolley tracks on public streets by the DOT.

The only exception was Chicago, IL which operated 3 different funeral trolley cars over the elevated tracks in downtown Chicago to outlying cemeteries in the western suburbs.

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 ".

John Stephens was a prosperous real estate developer after the Civil War and one of the founders of the Gate City Street Railroad ( 1881 ), a mule-drawn Atlanta trolley system.

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.

It was one of the first planned Victorian commuter suburbs, centered on the B & O railroad station in Takoma, D. C., and bore aspects of a spa and trolley park.

Contributing to Richmond's resurgence was the first successful electrically powered trolley system in the United States, the Richmond Union Passenger Railway.

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

This allowed Sprague to use electric motors to invent the first electric trolley system in 1887 – 88 in Richmond VA, the electric elevator and control system in 1892, and the electric subway with independently powered centrally controlled cars, which was first installed in 1892 in Chicago by the South Side Elevated Railway where it became popularly known as the " L ".

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.

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.

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

By the turn of the 20th century it was the site of an amusement park accessible by trolley run by the East Lyme Street Railway.

By the mid-19th century, Stafford was connected by railroad to markets across New England, and before the State Highway projects of the 1920s and 1930s, the town had a trolley connection to Rockville, CT.

The city's former trolley depot and bus barn was located on the spot where the Trolley Square shopping complex now sits.

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 ).

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.

For a while hybrid cable / electric systems operated, for example in Chicago where electric cars had to be pulled by grip cars through the loop area, due to the lack of trolley wires there.

The horses moved by being pulled along on a trolley which meant the viewer never saw their feet when they were moving.

At first this trolley was pulled by mules, but later it was electrified.

At first this trolley was pulled by mules, but later it was electrified.

This trolley was initially pulled by mules but later it became electrified.

In the 1870s, trolleys pulled by mules were operating in the area, with the first trolley concession operated by Jorge Luis Hemmerken that connected the Zocalo with San Angel and Mixcoac with Tacubaya.

A wagon (' waggon ' in British and Commonwealth English ) is a heavy four-wheeled horse drawn vehicle pulled by draught animals ; it was formerly often called a wain, and if low and sideless may be called a dray, trolley or float.

The trolley is pulled along the track by a chain, belt, or screw that turns when the motor is operated.

In fact, even as the horse lines were being converted to trolleys, the electrical cars had to be pulled by grip cars through the loop area, due to the lack of trolley wires there.

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 ).

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

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 ).

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.

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.