this trolley is a bus
is the History Channel fooling the public
ride the trolley. ya it looked funny
just seen there tv spot
like these
http://www.trolleytours.com/
K
City “Trolleys” have been around for 10 years or more, and are familiar sights in most large US cities. They’re not false advertising: when they say “trolley” on their commercials, they’re showing trolley buses, and 99% of the viewers who have been in a city of 250,000+ in the past ten years know what they’re talking about.
those kinda remind me of “Lolly the Trolley” (or whatever it is) here in Cleveland. get on a bus outfitted to look like a trolley and ride around the city.
on a side note… Wonder if that restoration project of the trolley station(s) up here ever took off…
Seattle has had for years, and continues to operate a fleet of electric
‘trackless trolleys’. Look like regular busses with dual trolley poles.
The newest ones can operate in Dual-Mode-either internal combustion
or off the catenary.
They look like buses, to me.
When I was a kid growing up in England, a lot of towns had what looked exactly like the traditional double deck London bus powered by overhead electric wires. These were called “Trolley Buses”. So the concept of a Trolley bus has been around for a while. Mind you, since none of the ones in question are powered in this way, I guess they are busses cunningly disguised to con the public into beleiving they are travelling on old time equipment.[:D]
Last i heard (which was back in october) was that the land for the station had been acquired and the plans were being finalized. construction was supposed to start within the year. I’m not sure what the current status is, but it would be awesome to ride the lakefront line in those old trolleys.
Dean
A “trolley bus” is a wheeled bus powered by overhead wires. These aren’t trolley buses and they certainly aren’t trolleys–they are buses, made up to look like streetcars. Some folks in the historic streetcar community call them “trollops.”
These things are mere shadows of the real thing. There are also companies that recondition old streetcars for commercial use, and build reproductions that ride on RAILS.
http://www.gomacotrolley.com/index.html
The buses just don’t compare. They stink, they ride like buses not like streetcars, they’re just NOT right. “Trollops” is the right word to describe 'em.
Get over it.
What they’re doing and how it’s defined is correct. Just cause it ain’t on rails, don’t have a hissy fit.
trolley
3 entries found for trolley.
trolley[1,noun]trolley[2,verb]trackless trolley
Main Entry: 1trol·ley
Variant(s): also trol·ly /'trä-lE/
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural trolleys also trollies
Etymology: probably from 1troll
1 dialect English : a cart of any of various kinds
2 a : a device that carries electric current from an overhead wire to an electrically driven vehicle b : a streetcar powered electrically through a trolley – called also trolley car
3 : a wheeled carriage running on an overhead rail or track
4 chiefly British : a cart or wheeled stand used for conveying something (as food or books)
Merriam-Webster Online
neutrino: Which is why a “trollop” isn’t a trolley. Trackless trolleys or trolley buses count in my book–motorized buses made up to look like trolleys don’t.
how meny do you think will ride if they sead ride the bus??
what no… cant be
thank you…
the only thing the “Trollups” do is remind of a time before, theres a few around here.
The auto hey day stole the streetcar away and now they are needed back and it will cost to return them.