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Conestoga Traction's connections to adjacent interurban trolley companies such as Philadelphia and West Chester (later Red Arrow; now today's operating Media–Sharon Hill Line), West Chester Street Railway, West Chester and Coatesville Traction, Schuylkill Valley Traction, Reading Transit, Hershey Transit, and Harrisburg Railways, one could ride trolleys from Philadelphia to Harrisburg ...
Denver cable car, 1895 Denver Tramway Corporation logo on trolleybus No. 553. The Denver Tramway, operating in Denver, Colorado, was a streetcar system incorporated in 1886. . The tramway was unusual for a number of reasons: the term "tramway" is generally not used in the United States, and it is not known why the company was named as s
The Denver Trolley operates a 1986 replica of a 1903 Brill open streetcar. The frame and steel components of the car used in the construction are from a 1924 Melbourne , Australia streetcar . Numbered 1977, the car was made by the Gomaco Trolley Company in Ida Grove, Iowa. [ 2 ]
March 31, 1911 Merged to for Jacksonville Traction Company. [50] South Jacksonville Municipal Railways Electric May 15, 1924 Operated by the Jacksonville Traction Company until its demise December 12, 1936. [50] Ortega Traction Company Electric May 1905 c. 1909 Folded into the Jacksonville Traction Company. [50] Duval Traction Company Electric
In Philadelphia, a former trolley line (SEPTA Route 15, aka. the Girard Avenue Line), that was "bustituted" in 1992, resumed trolley service in 2005 using rebuilt historic cars (see below); two other former Philadelphia trolley lines have been proposed for a resumption in trolley service in the 2010s though such plans have stalled.
Share certificate issued by the J. G. Brill Company, issued on April 11, 1921 A 1903 Brill-built streetcar on a heritage streetcar line in Sintra, Portugal in 2010. The J. G. Brill Company manufactured streetcars, [1] interurban coaches, motor buses, trolleybuses and railroad cars in the United States for nearly 90 years, hence the longest-lasting trolley and interurban manufacturer.
A tourist trolley, also called a road trolley, is a bus designed to resemble an old-style streetcar or tram, usually with false clerestory roof. The vehicles are usually fueled by diesel, or sometimes compressed natural gas. The name refers to the American English usage of the word trolley to mean an electric streetcar.
Cincinnati Street Railway Marmon-Herrington TC44 trolleybus #1300, photographed as new in 1947 Trolleybus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the Boston trolleybus system A dual-mode bus operating as a trolleybus in the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel, in 1990 San Francisco Muni ETI 15TrSF trolleybus #7108, on Van Ness Avenue at Geary Street, in 2004