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The first trolleybus version of the Xcelsior was an XT40 built in 2014 for the Seattle trolleybus system, operated by King County Metro, [3] the first unit of an order placed in 2013. [4] King County Metro also purchased the XT60 (articulated trolleybus), [ 4 ] and both XT40s and XT60s were subsequently purchased by the San Francisco Municipal ...
After the results of the evaluation, Metro placed an order in June 2013 with New Flyer for 141 Xcelsior trolleybuses to replace the Gillig and Breda trolleybuses. [32] The Xcelsior XT40 and XT60 are the first trolleybuses in King County Metro's fleet to have a low-floor design, a wheelchair ramp (instead of a lift), air conditioning and an ...
Metro's first low-floor trolleybuses, New Flyer Xcelsior model XT40 vehicles, entered service in 2015. Metro maintains a fleet of electric trolleybuses that serve 15 routes along almost 70 miles [16] of two-direction overhead wire. This is the second largest trolleybus system in the United States by ridership [17] and fleet size. [18]
1941 Western Flyer. New Flyer was founded by John Coval in 1930 as the Western Auto and Truck Body Works Ltd in Manitoba. The company began producing buses in 1937, selling their first full buses to Grey Goose Bus Lines in 1937, [1] before releasing their Western Flyer bus model in 1941, prompting the company to change its name to Western Flyer Coach in 1948.
New Flyer Xcelsior The New Flyer Low Floor is a line of low-floor transit buses that was manufactured by New Flyer Industries between 1991 and 2014. It was available in 30-foot rigid, 35-foot rigid, 40-foot rigid, and 60-foot articulated lengths.
New Flyer of America, headquartered in St. Cloud, announced its largest fuel cell bus order in the company's history Monday to make 108 hydrogen buses for San Mateo County Transit in California.
The steepest grade on the Muni trolleybus system, 22.8% in the block of Noe Street between Cesar Chavez Street and 26th Street on route 24-Divisadero, [22] is the steepest grade on any existing trolleybus line in the world, [23]: 127 [24] [25] and several other sections of Muni ETB routes are among the world's steepest. [26]
It includes all trolleybus systems, past and present. About 65 [1]: 78 trolleybus systems have existed in the U.S. at one time or another. In this list, boldface type in the "location" column and blue background colored row indicates one of the four U.S. trolleybus systems still in operation.