| Article about "Tram" in the English Wikipedia on 24-Apr-2004 (874 words) |
 | Trams are distinguished from other forms of light rail in that they travel along tracks laid down in the right-of-way of city streets. |
| The first lines built in the United States were in 1832 from New York to Harlem and in 1834 in New Orleans. |
| Railed vehicles pulled by cable up the hills at steep incline, such as Hong Kong's Victoria Peak Tram, and Monongahela and Duquesne Inclines in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, are also called trams, but are more accurately funiculars. |
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