Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!decvax!harpo!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxl!essachs From: essachs@ihuxl.UUCP (Ed Sachs) Newsgroups: net.railroad Subject: Re: Re Subways & LRV's Message-ID: <1146@ihuxl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-May-84 13:48:12 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxl.1146 Posted: Fri May 25 13:48:12 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Jun-84 21:04:32 EDT References: <247@whuxj.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 9 ====================================================== If "trolley car" implies an overhead wire with a trolley pole pickup, why did they call the old NYC streetcars (LRVs?) which used an underground conduit for power distribution "trolley cars?" -- Ed Sachs AT&T Bell Laboratories Naperville, IL ihuxl!essachs