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Passengers are still permitted to flag-down the trolley in between the posted stops.
They took the commuter train down, rode the trolley to the Mexican border, turned around, and came back.
To trim down the weight of trolley chassis along with strength is one of the objectives of work.
And yet in Barcelona, rattling back down the tunnel on the trolley, it was hard not to think that something was being lost.
He could hardly believe they had once talked on the trolley, shuttling down the tracks like a clumsy, mechanical beetle.
Then came the tinkling of the trolley retreating down the corridor, then, after the silence, a whoop or a hoot that could easily have come from the hotel bar downstairs.
Then came the tinkling of the trolley retreating down the corridor, then, after a silence, a whoop or a hoot that could easily have come from the hotel bar downstairs, and, at last, the newlyweds were properly alone.
Mrs. Grefe, one of the few white homeowners who stayed even when her neighbors left, remembers paying a nickel to jump on the trolley that ran down Nassau Road and whiling away afternoons at the movie house watching Charlie Chaplin on the big screen.
He was gentlemanly helping a lady friend off the trolley when he was run down.
Consider one version of the trolley problem: A runaway trolley is heading down the tracks toward five workers who will all be killed if the trolley proceeds on its present course.
