First P/R overflight of Moscow?

[Larry deZeng]

"............Tramlines"..................

In my post above where I inserted "blah, blah, blah", Kahn says in reference to this flight,

".........he [Noell] looked through the angular braces and panes of his cockpit window down onto the world capital of communism and saw the trolleys, like long, thin insects, crawling through the craze of streets."

I'm guessing here, but "tramlines, trolleys and Straßenbahnen" are different words for the same thing, i.e., streetcars. The Brits use "tramlines"(?), the Yankee doodles use "trolleys" and "streetcars", and the Germans use "Straßenbahn". I've been on all of them except for the British "trams" because the tube and the London double-decker buses were more fun.

L.