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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 ...
Trolley pole on a Toronto streetcar, tipped with a trolley shoe. A trolley pole is a tapered cylindrical pole of wood or metal, used to transfer electricity from a "live" (electrified) overhead wire to the control and the electric traction motors of a tram or trolley bus.
The first trolleybus line was opened by the former Market Street Railway Company (MSR). The San Francisco Municipal Railway ("Muni") opened the second trolleybus line on 7 September 1941. MSR was absorbed by Muni on 29 September 1944. Most of the current trolleybus system was built to replace MSR tramway lines.
The San Francisco trolleybus system forms part of the public transportation network serving San Francisco, in the state of California, United States.Opened on October 6, 1935, [2] it presently comprises 15 lines and is operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway, commonly known as Muni (or the Muni), with around 300 trolleybuses.
An overhead line or overhead wire is an electrical cable that is used to transmit electrical energy to electric locomotives, electric multiple units, trolleybuses or trams. The generic term used by the International Union of Railways for the technology is overhead line . [ 1 ]
The city's aging trolleybuses were spiffed up, and the overhead wire expanded in 1962 to serve the World's Fair, but citywide the Seattle Transit System was increasingly abandoning the trolley routes. One year later in 1963, the commission retired 175 trolleybuses and tore down the overhead wire in the north end of the city and West Seattle. A ...
This is a list of cities where trolleybuses operate, or operated in the past, ... Note for Rotterdam: Trolleybus overhead installed in the Maas tunnel in 1941, on ...
Boston Neoplan DMA-460LF dual-mode trolleybus, operating in diesel mode (with its trolley poles lowered). A dual-mode bus is a bus that can run independently on power from two different sources, typically electricity from overhead lines like a trolleybus or from batteries like a hybrid bus, alternated with conventional fossil fuel (generally diesel fuel).