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Electric streetcars were introduced to Montgomery in 1886. The World Cotton Centennial was held in New Orleans, Louisiana, from December 16, 1884, to June 2, 1885. It featured displays with a great deal of electric light illumination, an observation tower with electric elevators, and several prototype designs of electric streetcars. [10]
Electric 1888: April 20, 1932: Formerly Anniston Electric and Gas Company [2] Birmingham Railway, Light and Power Company: Birmingham: Horse January 24, 1884: April 16, 1898 Steam May 25, 1885: February 26, 1904 Electric October 10, 1891: April 19, 1953 ♦ Bessemer: Steam May 14, 1890: February 26, 1904 Electric July 25, 1906: 1915
Richmond Theatrical District in 1923, with Perley Thomas streetcars. An industrial rail siding alongside Stockton Street between 4th and 5th Streets. The Richmond Union Passenger Railway, in Richmond, Virginia, was the first practical electric trolley (tram) system, and set the pattern for most subsequent electric trolley systems around the world.
Busscar trolleybus in São Paulo, Brazil Solaris trolleybus in Landskrona, Sweden Video of a trolleybus in Ghent, Belgium. A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tram – in the 1910s and 1920s [1] – or trolley [2] [3]) is an electric bus that draws power from dual overhead wires (generally suspended from roadside posts) using spring-loaded ...
In the USA, Frank J. Sprague's groundbreaking work collecting power from overhead wires using trolleys kickstarted the transition. His spring-loaded trolley pole used a wheel to travel along the wire. In late 1887 and early 1888, using his trolley system, Sprague installed the first successful large electric street railway system in Richmond ...
Electric trolleys first appeared in Los Angeles in 1887. [1] In 1895 the Pasadena & Pacific Railway was created from a merger of the Pasadena and Los Angeles Railway and the Los Angeles Pacific Railway (to Santa Monica.) The Pasadena & Pacific Railway boosted Southern California tourism, living up to its motto "from the mountains to the sea."
Before the electric trolleys, there was the horsecar line of the Alexandria Passenger Railway (APR), which served Alexandria, Virginia, for just over a year in the 1870s.. Starting on July 12, 1873, the APR ran two horse-drawn cars on tracks from the Ferry Wharf, west on King Street and then south on Peyton Street to the old stone bridge over Hooff's R
In 1900, the trolley overhead power line broke at Wible's Woods, [39] and a car derailed in 1901 [40] (trolley machinery was improved in 1902 before Camp Lawton). [19] Events in 1903 included an attempted derailment by sabotage, [41] a moterman struck his head against "an electric pole that was close to the track", [26] and the "Slocum" trolley car jumped the tracks on April 27. [21]