Comments on: XML 2007: wrapup http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/2007/12/06/xml-2007-wrapup/ XML and the Web. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:01:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: John Cowan http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/2007/12/06/xml-2007-wrapup/#comment-31431 John Cowan Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:55:31 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/2007/12/06/xml-2007-wrapup/#comment-31431 The Green Line doesn't use trains, it uses trolleys/trams. They happen to be underground for much of the route, but not all of it. The Philadelphia Subway-Surface lines are similar. Alas, New York gave up all its trolleys decades ago, though they lasted long enough to give the L.A. (formerly Brooklyn) Dodgers their name -- short for Trolley Dodgers, a slang term for Brooklynites. The Green Line doesn’t use trains, it uses trolleys/trams. They happen to be underground for much of the route, but not all of it. The Philadelphia Subway-Surface lines are similar.

Alas, New York gave up all its trolleys decades ago, though they lasted long enough to give the L.A. (formerly Brooklyn) Dodgers their name — short for Trolley Dodgers, a slang term for Brooklynites.

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