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Cart from 16th century, found in Transylvania. A minecart, mine cart, or mine car (or more rarely mine trolley or mine hutch) is a type of rolling stock found on a mine railway, used for transporting ore and materials procured in the process of traditional mining.
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
a diagram of ZiU-9. The electrical equipment of the ZiU-9 had some minor differences from the ZiU-5. The power of the main motor was increased. The indirect resistor-based control system of electric current was slightly modified to deal with the increased power of the main motor.
Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes Valparaíso: 31 December 1952 Operation suspended 1 December 1981 - circa May 1982, reopened after sale to a new, private operator. [3] [4] See also Trolleybuses in Valparaíso. ENT/ETCE Santiago: 31 October 1947 ca. November 1978 Also experimental operation in 1940 [5] with a single vehicle ...
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. Interurban and light rail systems are denoted in the Type column, which is left blank for the far-more-plentiful streetcar systems. (Some pre-1970s ...
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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 ...
3-wheeled handcar or velocipede on a railroad track Preserved railroad velocipede on exhibit at the Toronto Railway Historical Association. A handcar (also known as a pump trolley, pump car, rail push trolley, push-trolley, jigger, Kalamazoo, [1] velocipede, or draisine) is a railroad car powered by its passengers, or by people pushing the car from behind.