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Electric Trolleybus Systems

They look like diesel buses, but run on electricity from a pair of overhead wires. In the 1930s and 1940s, many North American cities replaced electric streetcars with trolleybuses. Most of them were in turn replaced with diesel buses, in the 1950s and 1960s.

• Boston (Cambridge), Massachusetts
• Dayton, Ohio
• Edmonton, Alberta
• San Francisco, California
• Seattle, Washington
• Vancouver, British Columbia

Not currently in operation

• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (replaced with diesel buses on 3 July 2003; new trolleybuses on order for 2007)

Outside the USA and Canada

• Solingen, Germany

Other Sites

• David Wyatt's All Time List of North American Trolleybus Systems.
• Richard DeArmond's Electric Trolleybus Home Page
• Ashley Bruce's British Trolleybuses

This page was last updated on 22 April 2006.

This page is © 2006 by Jon Bell (jbell at presby.edu), who is solely responsible for its content.