[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Fishes and : Bumper Stickers

Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force) n2fgc at arrl.net
Tue Jun 16 23:00:57 UTC 2009


[Geoff]:
| Again, I was being unclear. I know what a streetcar is; its 
| your word for 
| our tram. I was querying "trolley car". 
| 
| The word tram has come back into fashion here because where we have 
| a light rail system which includes street running, they tend 
| to be referred 
| to as modern tramways.

[Lee]:
I tend to think of "Trolley" as a street-level transport on a rail or track,
like "Street car" and a "Tram" or "Tramway" runs above street level on light
rail or cable.  In New York City, there's a tram that goes from City proper
to Roosevelt Island; it's a cable system, I believe.  It got stuck once and
really caused a to-do with rescuing passengers.

Cheers,
Lee :-)

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