Trolleybus
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A trolleybus is an electric bus that draws power from dual overhead lines using spring-loaded or pneumatically raised trolley poles. Two wires, and two trolley poles, are required to complete the elec
A Sunwin trolleybus in Shanghai, on the world's oldest operating trolleybus system
Solaris trolleybus on the Arnhem trolleybus system in the Netherlands
New Flyer trolleybus in San Francisco
The Elektromote, the world's first trolleybus, in Berlin, Germany, 1882
Trolleybuses in Valparaíso
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Trolleybuses in Valparaíso, Chile, have provided a portion of the public transit service since 1952. The trolleybus system is the second-oldest in South America. The originally state-owned system has
One of Valparaíso's 1952-built Pullman-Standard trolleybuses in 1996, when still in the system's original paint scheme and with the name of the private operating company, ECTE, along its sides
Interior of one of the 1947 Pullman trolleybuses
1952 Pullman trolleybus 709 in service in 2008, in the green-and-cream paint scheme adopted in 2003
Ex-Zürich 105 (built 1959), the oldest articulated trolleybus still in service anywhere in the world in the 2000s and 2010s, displaying a logo ETCE used from 2003–2007