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Several PCF–Brill trolleybuses and one Twin Coach on Pike Street in Downtown Seattle in 1956. The first trolleybus to operate on Seattle's streets was in 1937. It was brought to the city for a demonstration to gain public support for a plan to replace the debt-ridden streetcar and cable car system with a "trackless trolley" system.
Dual-mode (diesel & electric trolley) Diesel: Detroit Diesel 6V92TA / ZF 4HP600 Electric Trolley: AEG / Westinghouse: 1988–1991: 2005: 5000–5235 (236) 63 Electric trolleybus conversion AEG/Westinghouse 1988–1991 (converted 2004–2007) 2016: 4200–4258 (59) [66] 56 Last Breda trolleybus to be retired was unit 4243 on route 36 on October ...
Dual-mode (diesel-trolley) buses used electric traction in the South Boston Waterfront tunnel and a short surface section, and diesel propulsion elsewhere. [16] Replaced by CNG buses with extended battery mode for the tunnel. Fairhaven: 16 October 1915 1 December 1915 Experimental. Fitchburg: 10 May 1932 30 June 1946 System also served Leominster.
Metro is also contracted to operate and maintain Sound Transit's 1 Line Link light rail line and eight of the agency's Sound Transit Express bus routes along with the Seattle Streetcar lines owned by the City of Seattle. Metro's services include electric trolleybuses in Seattle, RapidRide enhanced buses on eight lines, commuter routes along the ...
Only base that serves electric trolley buses [6] Atlantic Maintenance: 1555 Airport Way South, Seattle [7] Central Base: 640 S Massachusetts St, Seattle [5] 1941 [6] Central/Atlantic/Ryerson Operations [8] 1270 6th Ave S, Seattle [7] Communications Control Center: 1505 6th Ave S, Seattle [7] 2007 [9] Marketing Distribution Center: 1523 6th Ave ...
City buses were seen as more economical and flexible: a bus could carry a number of people similar to that in a streetcar without tracks and associated infrastructure. Many transit operators removed some streetcar tracks but kept the electric infrastructure so as to run electrified trackless trolley buses. Many such systems lasted only as long ...
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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 ...