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 Post subject: Western Michigan University trolley replica
PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 7:16 am 

http://www.wmich.edu/wmu/news/2011/11/022.html


  
 
 Post subject: Re: Western Michigan University trolley replica
PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 11:07 am 

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Oh no! Not another misuse of the term "trolley". I suppose my cause is hopeless, but the car in the news item is a replica of a funicular car. If a vehicle runs on rails and receives electric power from an overhead wire, it's a trolley car. If it's an electric bus in England, it's a trolley.

The following are not trolleys:
San Francisco cable cars.
Funicular railway cars.
(and most especially) Buses with streetcar styled bodies.

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