trolley line
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Powered by the electricity from the city’s trolley line, engineer James Hodge’s invention featured two lights: red and green, the colors long used by railroads.
From Seattle Times • May 10, 2024
"Patients lucky enough to have a bed or trolley line every corridor."
From BBC • Jan. 9, 2023
Esch opened a florist’s shop, and by 1904 an electric trolley line and a railroad track had converged mere feet from the property, to serve the outposts of Eckington and Bladensburg.
From Washington Post • Dec. 25, 2017
“The first trolley line went in at the same time,” said Smith, leader of the Downtown San Diego Residents Group, “and huge numbers of people rode the trolley up to shop at Horton Plaza.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2017
In the small village a small group of men own the bank, the coal yard, the ice-plant, the trolley line, the gas plant, and the little factories.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur
