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76 relations: Adelaide, Bakersfield and Kern Electric Railway, Birney Safety Streetcar No. 224, Bogie, Car, Charlotte Trolley, Christchurch, Concordia, Entre Ríos, Conductor (rail), Curitiba, Dallas, Dead man's switch, Derailment, Engineer, Ferrymead, Ferrymead Heritage Park, Fort Collins Municipal Railway, Fort Collins Municipal Railway Birney Safety Streetcar No. 21, Fort Smith Trolley Museum, Fresno, California, G type Adelaide tram, Gomaco Trolley Company, Great Depression, Guayaquil, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Hawthorn tram depot, Heritage streetcar, Infrastructure, Interurban, Invercargill, J. G. Brill Company, Kalmbach Publishing, Labour economics, List of defunct utility companies in Victoria, Australia, MATA Trolley, McKinney Avenue Transit Authority, Medellín, Melbourne, Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board, Metro Streetcar, Motorman, Municipal Tramways Trust, National Register of Historic Places, Nelson Electric Tramway, Nelson, British Columbia, New Plymouth, Nova Scotia, One-man operation, Ottawa Car Company, Paraná, Entre Ríos, ..., PCC streetcar, Pereira, Colombia, Peter Witt streetcar, Public transport, Rush hour, Slogan, Stone & Webster, Sydney Tramway Museum, Tampa, Florida, TECO Line Streetcar System, Texas, Texas Interurban Railway, Toronto Transportation Commission, Tram, Trams in Bendigo, Trams in Geelong, Trams in Milan, Tramway Historical Society, Tramway Museum, St Kilda, Trenton, New Jersey, Western Railway Museum, Whanganui, William D. Middleton, World War I, World War II, X-class Melbourne tram. Expand index (26 more) »
Adelaide
Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia.
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Bakersfield and Kern Electric Railway
The Bakersfield and Kern Electric Railway was a streetcar company which operated between Bakersfield and Sumner (later Kern City), in California.
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Birney Safety Streetcar No. 224
Birney Safety Streetcar No.
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Bogie
A bogie (in some senses called a truck in North American English) is a chassis or framework carrying wheelsets, attached to a vehicle, thus serving as a modular subassembly of wheels and axles.
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Car
A car (or automobile) is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transportation.
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Charlotte Trolley
The Charlotte Trolley was a heritage streetcar that operated in Charlotte in the U.S. state of North Carolina.
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Christchurch
Christchurch (Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region.
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Concordia, Entre Ríos
San Antonio de Padua de la Concordia (usually shortened to Concordia) is a city in the north-east of the province of Entre Ríos in the Argentine Mesopotamia.
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Conductor (rail)
A conductor (American and Canadian English) or guard (Commonwealth English) is a train crew member responsible for operational and safety duties that do not involve actual operation of the train.
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Curitiba
Curitiba (Tupi: "Pine Nut Land") is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Paraná.
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Dallas
Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.
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Dead man's switch
A dead man's switch (for other names, see alternative names) is a switch that is automatically operated if the human operator becomes incapacitated, such as through death, loss of consciousness, or being bodily removed from control.
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Derailment
A derailment occurs when a vehicle such as a train runs off its rails.
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Engineer
Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are people who invent, design, analyze, build, and test machines, systems, structures and materials to fulfill objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety, and cost.
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Ferrymead
Ferrymead is a suburb south-east of Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Ferrymead Heritage Park
Ferrymead Heritage Park is a museum in Christchurch, New Zealand, housing groups with historical themes, mainly transport related.
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Fort Collins Municipal Railway
The Fort Collins Municipal Railway operated streetcars in Fort Collins, Colorado, from 1919 until 1951.
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Fort Collins Municipal Railway Birney Safety Streetcar No. 21
Fort Collins Municipal Railway Birney Safety Streetcar No.
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Fort Smith Trolley Museum
The Fort Smith Trolley Museum is a streetcar and railroad museum in Fort Smith, in the U.S. state of Arkansas, which includes an operating heritage streetcar line.
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Fresno, California
Fresno (Spanish for "ash tree") is a city in California, United States, and the county seat of Fresno County.
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G type Adelaide tram
The G type Adelaide tram was a class of four single truck Birney trams manufactured by JG Brill Company.
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Gomaco Trolley Company
The Gomaco Trolley Company is a manufacturer of vintage-style streetcars (alternatively called trolleys in the USA, or trams in much of the world), located in Ida Grove, Iowa, United States.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.
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Guayaquil
Guayaquil, officially Santiago de Guayaquil (St.), is the largest and the most populous city in Ecuador, with around 2 million people in the metropolitan area, as well as the nation's main port.
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Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax, officially known as the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), is the capital of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
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Hawthorn tram depot
Hawthorn tram depot was built in April 1916 by the Hawthorn Tramways Trust (HTT).
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Heritage streetcar
Heritage streetcars or heritage trams are a part of the efforts to preserve rail traffic heritage.
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Infrastructure
Infrastructure is the fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or other area, including the services and facilities necessary for its economy to function.
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Interurban
The interurban (or radial railway) is a type of electric railway, with streetcar-like light electric self-propelled railcars which run within and between cities or towns.
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Invercargill
Invercargill (Waihōpai) is the southernmost and westernmost city in New Zealand, and one of the southernmost cities in the world.
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J. G. Brill Company
The J.G. Brill Company manufactured trams/streetcars (also, US: trolleys, trolley cars)Young, Andrew D. (1997).
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Kalmbach Publishing
Kalmbach Publishing Co. is an American publisher of books and magazines, many of them railroad-related, located in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
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Labour economics
Labour economics seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the markets for wage labour.
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List of defunct utility companies in Victoria, Australia
The Australian state of Victoria has a number of defunct energy supply and distribution utility companies.
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MATA Trolley
The MATA Trolley is a heritage streetcar transit system operating in Memphis in the U.S. state of Tennessee.
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McKinney Avenue Transit Authority
The McKinney Avenue Transit Authority (MATA), a non-profit organization, operates the M-line Trolley in Dallas, Texas (USA).
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Medellín
Medellín, officially the Municipality of Medellín (Municipio de Medellín), is the second-largest city in Colombia and the capital of the department of Antioquia.
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Melbourne
Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.
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Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board
The Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB) was a government-owned authority that was responsible for the tram network in Melbourne, Australia between 1919 and 1983, when it was merged into the Metropolitan Transit Authority.
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Metro Streetcar
The Metro Streetcar, formerly known as the River Rail Streetcar, is a heritage streetcar system operating in Little Rock and North Little Rock in the U.S. state of Arkansas.
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Motorman
A motorman is a person who operates a tram (streetcar), electrified tram (trolley) car, light rail, or rapid transit train.
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Municipal Tramways Trust
The Municipal Tramways Trust (MTT) was established by the Government of South Australia in December 1906 to purchase all of the horse-drawn tramways in Adelaide, Australia.
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National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.
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Nelson Electric Tramway
The Nelson Electric Tramway is a heritage railway in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada.
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Nelson, British Columbia
Nelson is a city located in the Selkirk Mountains on the extreme West Arm of Kootenay Lake in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada.
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New Plymouth
New Plymouth (Ngāmotu) is the major city of the Taranaki Region on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand.
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Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia (Latin for "New Scotland"; Nouvelle-Écosse; Scottish Gaelic: Alba Nuadh) is one of Canada's three maritime provinces, and one of the four provinces that form Atlantic Canada.
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One-man operation
One-man operation (OMO), also known as driver-only operation (DOO), one person operation (OPO), single person train operation (SPTO), or one-person train operation (OPTO), is operation of a train, bus, or tram by the driver or motorman alone, without a conductor.
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Ottawa Car Company
The Ottawa Car Company was a builder of streetcars for the Canadian market and was founded in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1891Middleton, William D. (1967).
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Paraná, Entre Ríos
Paraná is the capital city of the Argentine province Entre Ríos, located on the eastern shore of the Paraná River, opposite the city of Santa Fe, capital of the neighbouring Santa Fe Province.
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PCC streetcar
The PCC (Presidents’ Conference Committee) is a streetcar (tram) design that was first built in the United States in the 1930s.
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Pereira, Colombia
Pereira is the capital city of the Colombian department of Risaralda.
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Peter Witt streetcar
The Peter Witt streetcar was introduced by Cleveland Railway commissioner Peter Witt (1869-1948) who led the transit agency from 1911-1915 and designed a model of streetcar known by his name that was used in many North American cities, most notably in Toronto and Cleveland.
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Public transport
Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, or mass transit) is transport of passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that charge a posted fee for each trip.
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Rush hour
A rush hour (American English, British English) is a part of the day during which traffic congestion on roads and crowding on public transport is at its highest.
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Slogan
A slogan is a memorable motto or phrase used in a clan, political, commercial, religious, and other context as a repetitive expression of an idea or purpose, with the goal of persuading members of the public or a more defined target group.
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Stone & Webster
Stone & Webster was an American engineering services company based in Stoughton, Massachusetts.
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Sydney Tramway Museum
The Sydney Tramway Museum (also known as the South Pacific Electric Railway) is Australia's oldest tramway museum and the largest in the southern hemisphere.
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Tampa, Florida
Tampa is a major city in, and the county seat of, Hillsborough County, Florida, United States.
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TECO Line Streetcar System
The TECO Line Streetcar System is a heritage streetcar transit line in Tampa, Florida, run by the Hillsborough Area Regional Transportation Authority, owned by the city of Tampa, and managed by Tampa Historic Streetcar, Inc.
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Texas
Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.
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Texas Interurban Railway
The Texas Interurban Railway was an electric interurban railroad that operated from Dallas, Texas, to Terrell and Denton from 1923 to 1932.
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Toronto Transportation Commission
Toronto Transportation Commission (TTC) was the public transit operator in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which operated buses, streetcars and the island ferries.
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Tram
A tram (also tramcar; and in North America streetcar, trolley or trolley car) is a rail vehicle which runs on tramway tracks along public urban streets, and also sometimes on a segregated right of way.
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Trams in Bendigo
Trams have operated in the city of Bendigo, Victoria, Australia since 1890, and continue to operate today as a tourist attraction.
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Trams in Geelong
The city of Geelong in Victoria, Australia, operated an extensive tramway system from 1912 until 1956, when the service was replaced by buses.
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Trams in Milan
The Milan tramway network (Rete tranviaria di Milano) is an important part of the public transport network of Milan, Italy.
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Tramway Historical Society
The Tramway Historical Society Inc.
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Tramway Museum, St Kilda
The Tramway Museum, St Kilda is a museum of the historic trams of Adelaide, as well as a few from other areas of Australia.
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Trenton, New Jersey
Trenton is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Jersey and the county seat of Mercer County.
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Western Railway Museum
The Western Railway Museum, in Solano County, California is located on Highway 12 between Rio Vista and Suisun.
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Whanganui
Whanganui, also spelt Wanganui, is a city on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand.
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William D. Middleton
William D. Middleton (March 25, 1928 – July 10, 2011) was an American reporter, writer and photographer.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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X-class Melbourne tram
The X-class was a class of two Birney trams imported from United States manufacturers JG Brill Company and St Louis Car Company by the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board.
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