Trolley
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Trolley - Self-propelled, electric passenger cars that typically ran on city streets, rather than between cities and towns, like Interurbans did.
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Trolley may refer to:
a tram in American English
a shopping cart in British and Australian English
a gurney in British English
Trolley may also refer to: ...
Trolley
Slang for a streetcar which collects power from an overhead line via a troller (wheel or slider). The "trolley" is actually the pole and troller assembly.
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Trolley
Name commonly given to a streetcar which receives its power from overhead electric lines. Also, the name of the pole-like device used to collect and transfer electricity from the overhead lines into the streetcar itself.
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A trolley subway station, located below the REA building area. Looks like it is based on MBTA's Green Line subway. A very simple, but effective set-up: the walls are made from tile-textured styrene, and the beams are pieces of Plastruct channel.
Modular Trolley Modelers Group
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Danny Soetens Outstanding Streetcar Layout in Amsterdam Includes Fantastic City Snow Scenes ...
When the trolley crosses the sensor - Q1, the output of IC 1A will go LOW and IC 1B will turn OFF.
When the output of IC1B is OFF the transistor Q3 will turn ON and switch machine coil 'A' will fire.
Contact (Trolley) Wire. The overhead wire, sometimes referred to as trolley wire, which the pantograph of an electric locomotive rides against (contacts) to collect its electrical current (source of power).
If you want the trolley to stop at each end of the track and be delayed for a set period of time, substitute an AR-2 circuit board for the AR-1.
Plate-Layer's Trolley
A railway vehicle small enough to be removed from the rails by hand. The vehicle is propelled by hand or by a small petrol engine.
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A handcar (pump trolley UK)
TPW 400, an ALCO RS-11, a type of hood unit
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LRV (Light Rail Vehicle) A tram, trolley, streetcar etc. constructed in the 1970s or later. The name introduced to try to give the tram or trolley a more up-market image. LRVs also have higher weights and horsepower than trolleys or streetcars.
Shunt (US): To bond the rails/power feeds between sections on trolley/light rail systems, so as to temporarily bridge past dead areas.
Car Barn - Storage house for trolley and interurban cars.
Car Knocker - A car inspector, so-called from the men who tap the wheels to test for soundness.
traction - general term for electrically propelled street cars (trolley cars) and interurban cars.
Pantograph An electrical trolley carried on a collapsible and adjustable frame. Used on electrified locomotives and self-propelled cars for current pick-up from the catenary system.
If you want an engine or have decided on a trolley line, buy a loco that will make the curves on your track. Most 4 axle diesels can handle 18" radius HO curves, and 6 axle units generally require 22".
The term "trolley" is used in Britain to denote a small cart-a tea trolley or a luggage trolley-and it is being used more and more in the U. S. to mean a bus cosmetically altered to look like an old streetcar or even a San Francisco cable car.
Traction: City and suburban trolley lines; equipment run by electricity.
Train set: a train sold as such by its manufacturer, with or without track and transformer.
Louis trolleys and Illinois Terminal still ran with lots of long-gone neat stuff. 1945-My troop train stopped, so I dug out my old Argus.
Passing sidings on trolley layouts will conform to prototype. The old interurban and street railways had lots of spring turnouts.
DINKY"Switch engine without tender, used around back shop and roundhouse, or any small locomotive. Alsoa four-wheel trolleycar
DIPLOMA"Clearance or service letter; fake service letter ...
As used in the USA, "interurban" refers to a trolley (streetcar, light railway) system which ran between two different towns or cities.
 See also: Track, Train, Car, Operation, Switch
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