To the Editor: There is a lot to be said for trolleys, old and new, but they were and are not starships.

There was a blanket of cold mist and an old trolley that took them 300 feet down.

But unlike the old trolleys, it will have air-conditioning in the summer.

After the switch from streetcars to buses after World War II, the Denver Tramway Co. sold the old trolleys for $100 each.

The signs are strategically placed where old trolley stops and stations once stood and they explain the historical significance of them.

By this past summer, the group had 16 old trolleys, some in a trolley barn on a Red Hook pier, and a quarter-mile of track and electric wire.

Let's welcome back the noisy old trolley and save gasoline.

The old trolleys had all-wood bodies, whereas the replicas have steel frames, concealed by wood, for better safety and durability.

Manhandling the aeroplane down the slipway on an old flat-bed trolley, five of us took just twenty minutes to get the big beast bobbing happily on the briny.

With the freeway gone, the old trolleys became an integral part of the redevelopment of the waterfront.