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

In 1907, the public trolley line from Camden’s Federal Street Ferry House was extended to the gates of Clementon Park, and visitors from Camden and Philadelphia flooded in.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2021

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

Edison employed no trolley line or third rail, but only the two rails of the track as conductors, sending the current out through one rail and back through the other.

From The Story of Great Inventions by Burns, Elmer Ellsworth