Trolley

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Trolley may refer to:

Vehicles and components

• Tram, an electric rail transport vehicle also known as a trolley or streetcar. Some modern light rail systems are also referred to as trolleys.
  • Neighborhood Trolley, the streetcar scale model in the PBS children's television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood
• Trolleybus, an electric bus
• Tourist trolley, a bus built to resemble a trolley car/ historic tram.
• Trolley (horse-drawn), a goods vehicle with a platform body with four small wheels of equal size, mounted underneath it, the front two on a turntable undercarriage
• Rail push trolley, a small vehicle for inspecting rail lines

Tools

• Airline service trolley, a unit supplied by an air carrier for use by cabin crew inside the aircraft for transport of beverages, food and other items during a flight
• Boat dolly, a device for launching small boats into the water
• Danish trolley, a type of wheeled shelving unit used to transport goods in horticulture
• Flatbed trolley, a common form of transport in warehousing and distribution environments, for moving bulk loads
• Gurney, a form of wheeled stretcher
• Hand truck, an L-shaped box-moving handcart with handles at one end, wheels at the base, with a small ledge to set objects on, flat against the floor when the hand-truck is upright
• Laptop charging trolley, a device for charging mobile computers
• Piano trolley, a device for moving pianos
• Shopping cart, a cart supplied by a shop, especially supermarkets, for use by customers for transport of merchandise
• Stroller, a device for transporting young children
• Trolley pole, a device for drawing electricity from an overhead wire

Places

• Trolley park, precursors to amusement parks which were built by trolley companies to increase weekend business
• Trolley Square, a partially enclosed shopping center located in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
  • Trolley (UTA station), a light rail station on the UTA Trax system serving Trolley Square Mall
  • Trolley Square shooting, a mass murder that took place at Trolley Square Mall in 2007

Media

• Trolley Books, an independent UK publisher, specialising in art and photography books
  • Trolley Gallery, a contemporary art gallery in Shoreditch, East London that shares some leadership with the publisher
• Trolley Dollies, a TV documentary series aired on British digital network LIVING in 2005
• Trolley Troubles, a 1927 animated short film by Walt Disney which featured the first appearance of a Mickey Mouse predecessor
• Trolley Wire, the magazine of the Sydney Tramway Museum at Loftus, New South Wales Australia
• Off the Trolley, a 1919 American short comedy film
• "Shopping Trolley", a 2006 single by English songwriter Beth Orton
• "The Trolley Song", a 1944 song made famous by Judy Garland

Other

• Trolley dodger, a pejorative term of Manhattanites for residents of Brooklyn, New York from the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th century
  • Brooklyn Dodgers, later Los Angeles Dodgers, a baseball name briefly named the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers
• Trolley problem, a thought experiment in ethics

See also

• All pages beginning with "Trolley"
• All pages with titles containing Trolley