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Posted by gbs on Tue Aug 25 00:57:01 2009 I don't remember the Brooklyn trolleys, but as a kid I did see the electric buses that replaced some of them, especially around Flatbush and 4th Avenues ("Times Plaza"). They looked like ordinary buses, except that they were tethered to the overhead wires with their trolley poles.But how did the trolleys work? 1. What kind of controls did the trolleys have? Handles, like the subways, or foot controls, like the buses? 2. Who controlled the switches in the street that caused the trolleys to diverge or merge? Were there interlockings and towers? 3. There don't seem to have been special signals for the trolleys. Did they simply obey the traffic lights, like the cars and buses? 4. Trolleys couldn't steer around obstructions. Did they always have the right of way? 5. Were there specific stops in the middle of the street, or did passengers wave them down wherever they were? Thanks. |
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