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What is English name of these vehicles?

I mean the vehicles like Regio-Shuttle
(http://www.dot.state.co.us/NFRTAFS/korve/karl d~1/sld025.htm) or Alstom (). They are used as local buses but use track bars of the railway system.
  

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htm) or Alstom ( ). [/nq] "Trains" if they are on a dedicated track. "Trams" if they run on rails laid in the road.

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  • htm) or Alstom ( ).
  • [/nq] "Trains" if they are on a dedicated track.
  • "Trams" if they run on rails laid in the road.
  • "Streetcar" if they run on rails laid in the road and you live in America.
  • They may individually have manufacturers type/logo/model names, such as "ADTranz".
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[nq:1]I mean the vehicles like Regio-Shuttle (http://www.dot.state.co.us/NFRTAFS/korve/karl d~1/sld025.htm) or Alstom (
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[nq:1]I mean the vehicles like Regio-Shuttle (http://www.dot.state.co.us/NFRTAFS/korve/karl d~1/sld025.htm) or Alstom (
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[nq:1]I mean the vehicles like Regio-Shuttle (http://www.dot.state.co.us/NFRTAFS/korve/karl d~1/sld025.htm) or Alstom (
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[nq:1]I mean the vehicles like Regio-Shuttle (http://www.dot.state.co.us/NFRTAFS/korve/karl d~1/sld025.htm[/nq]
That page doesn't load, for me.
[nq:1]) or Alstom (
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[nq:1]I mean the vehicles like Regio-Shuttle (http://www.dot.state.co.us/NFRTAFS/korve/karl d~1/sld025.htm) or Alstom (
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[nq:2]I mean the vehicles like Regio-Shuttle (http://www.dot.state.co.us/NFRTAFS/korve/karl d~1/sld025.htm) or Alstom (
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[nq:1]I mean the vehicles like Regio-Shuttle (http://www.dot.state.co.us/NFRTAFS/korve/karl d~1/sld025.htm) or Alstom (
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[nq:2]I mean the vehicles like Regio-Shuttle[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't think we have a lot of those in the U.S. If the rails or tracks (not "track bars", by the way) are in the streets, they'd be streetcars or trolleys. If not, maybe commuter trains or rapid-transit trains.[/nq]
"Light rail" is a term that is common in Pittsburgh for what used to be streetcar lines. I have heard the term in a few
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[nq:1]"Light rail" is a term that is common in Pittsburgh for what used to be streetcar lines. I have heard the term in a few other places, as well.[/nq]
Yeah, "light rail" is the buzz term for streetcar, except I suppose light rail can go underground. Boston had (has?) streetcar trains that go underground and when they are underground they are called subways. I'm not sure what they were (are?
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[nq:1]on standard tracks with overhead electric source, then the term commonly used is "light rail". In St. Louis, the particular implementation is the[/nq]
The source actually isn't overhead. They use a kind of accumulator (as far as I'm concerned).
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