streetcar
(North America) A tram or light rail vehicle, usually a single car but sometimes multiple cars attached together, operating on city streets; a trolley car.
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This is actually pretty great and has a scene of Christopher Walken playing Stanley Kowalski from "A Streetcar Named Desire".
That’s ok tho. They’re gonna arrest addicts on the streetcar now. So everything is fine.
Y'know what? Good. And now I hafta go finish writing my diatribe that I'll tell alla the visitors to my fair city about the Potemkin village that KC will create on Main St. Until they throw me offa the streetcar, an…
There's also an operating streetcar museum in Baltimore. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimo...
You don’t think there’s more to it than “short train that runs in the street”? The DC Streetcar (RIP) and Zurich trams are very different beasts
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(North America) A tram or light rail vehicle, usually a single car but sometimes multiple cars attached together, operating on city streets; a trolley car.
“This is actually pretty great and has a scene of Christopher Walken playing Stanley Kowalski from "A Streetcar Named Desire".”
— Bluesky· May 2026“That’s ok tho. They’re gonna arrest addicts on the streetcar now. So everything is fine.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Y'know what? Good. And now I hafta go finish writing my diatribe that I'll tell alla the visitors to my fair city about the Potemkin village that KC will create on Main St. Until they throw me offa the streetcar, anyway.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“There's also an operating streetcar museum in Baltimore. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimo...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“You don’t think there’s more to it than “short train that runs in the street”? The DC Streetcar (RIP) and Zurich trams are very different beasts”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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