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The Bangor Railway & Electric Company, founded as the Bangor Street Railway and renamed in 1924 as Bangor Hydro-Electric, operated trolleys on an electric railway between Bangor and Charleston, Maine, from 1889 to 1930. It began operation the year after the world's first widely successful electric trolley system debuted in Richmond, Virginia. [1]
The trolley cars are a small part of the large collection of vehicles at the Seashore Trolley Museum. While the museum's collection of more than 250 vehicles includes ones from several different U.S. states and a few foreign countries, the 10 vehicles in the National Register listing were all operated in the state of Maine at one time.
List of rail transit systems in the United States, which also includes subway/metro and commuter rail systems. In the state-by-state tables below: A diamond (♦) symbol denotes a system that operates or operated in the same area as another independent system. Names and cities of currently operating systems appear in bold on blue backgrounds.
Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes Los Angeles: 11 September 1910 1915 Located in Laurel Canyon. The first commercial trolleybus system in the United States. [4] [5] [6] Later, there were 1922 and 1937 demonstrations of newer vehicles. [1] [7] [a]
With over 14,000 units, Tatra T3 is the most widely produced type in history. [1]A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in Canada and the United States) is an urban rail transit in which vehicles, whether individual railcars or multiple-unit trains, run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way.
Gadsden Trolley System is the primary provider of mass transportation in Gadsden, Alabama, with four routes serving the region.It is a service of Gadsden Transit Services. As of 2019, the system provided 105,904 rides over 25,374 annual vehicle revenue hours with 5 buses and 8 paratransit vehicle
A trolleytruck (also known as a freight trolley or trolley truck [1]) is a trolleybus-like vehicle used for carrying cargo instead of passengers. A trolleytruck is usually a type of electric truck powered by two overhead wires , from which it draws electricity using two trolley poles .
Trolley bus service continued until 1967, the last day of electric service being November 11, 1967. [3] The transit system then used only motor buses, but retained the name Johnstown Traction Company (in which "traction" is a reference to electric vehicle propulsion). In 1976, the private JTC would become the CamTran public transit system.