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Also Known As trolley car • trolleycar • street car • tram

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Electric streetcar in Providence, R.I., c. 1925
Two women in military-style uniforms stand at a service window, holding cards as a man inside stamps documents.
trolley car in Lisbon
Miskolc
tram in Strasbourg, France
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Charles Tyson Yerkes
American financier