It was long ago, 1950, but the childhood memory is as bright as that trolley was in Denver.

“The big yellow cars, that’s what they were called,” John Haney says, thinking back on the ride. “That was their last year of operation in Denver.”

The trolleys of his native Colorado Springs had come to an end previously, in 1932. Haney was not yet born. And yet somehow those days are vivid in his mind — bright as that day on the big yellow car.

“I was pretty smitten,” Haney recalls.

So much so that trolleys would be a lifelong passion, particularly those that ran in his hometown.

Yes, he can easily imagine them thanks to more than four decades of picture-collecting and extensive research and writing.

Haney has revised the book he originally published alongside the late Morris Cafky in 1983,

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