You don't need a steering wheel when the street car follows a tract.

既然是有轨车 跟着轨道走 又怎么需要一个方向盘呢。

IN THE EARLY 1900S, TROLLEY TRACKS RAN IN CRAZY PATTERNS THROUGH THE STREETS OF BROOKLYN.

1900 年代初期，车轨道以疯狂方式穿过布鲁克林街道。

I glanced up to find two vapor trails heading off to the west in perfect parallel, like tram tracks.

我抬头一，发现两条蒸汽轨迹完全平行地向西延伸，就像车轨道一样。

It was originally the Trolley Dodgers, because in the 1890s pedestrians regularly had to risk life and limb crossing the New York City borough's chaotic trolley tracks.

它最初是 Trolley Dodgers， 因为在 1890 年代， 行人经常不得不冒着生命危险穿越纽约市行政区混乱车轨道。

It's 94 letters and it means the " manager of the depot for the supply of uniforms  to the personnel of the track cleaners union of the tramway company" .

它由 94 个字母组成，意思是“车公司轨道清洁工工会人员制服供应站经理”。

The rails are laid flush with the road surface like tram tracks in the fast lane which is closed to traffic once every half hour for the trains to past through.

铁轨与路面齐平铺设，就像快车道车轨道一样，每半小时封闭一次，供火车通过。

Toppled outhouses and trampled vegetable gardens soon gave way to more violent hijinks—like the time a Kansas woman almost died in a car crash after kids rubbed candle wax on streetcar tracks, for example—and these pranks escalated during the Great Depression.

倒塌外屋和被践踏菜园很快让位于更暴力恶作剧——例如，一名堪萨斯州妇女在孩子们在有轨车轨道擦蜡烛蜡后差点死于车祸——这些恶作剧在大萧条期间升级。