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Re: Electric over gasoline buses to replace streetcars
Author: Erik H.
Date: 07-05-2016 - 17:51
Max Wyss Wrote:
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> I believe to remember reading that in some cases (could have been Boston), they took the
> electrical equipment from old trolley buses and reused it in new ones.
It was Seattle, that used old electrical gear, refurbished it, and stuck it in brand new Gillig Phantom bus bodies. Now those buses are being retired as we speak.
> Modern trolleybuses are primarily single or double articulated (that's where the internal
> combustion engines start to get weak).
Again, in Seattle, most trolley buses were 40' (non-articulated) Gillig Phantoms, although they did have about 70 articulated buses. Plenty of non-articulated trolley buses in Vancouver, San Francisco, etc. So far most of the double-articulated buses I can find are in fact diesel (or diesel-hybrid), NOT trolleys.
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> I believe to remember reading that in some cases (could have been Boston), they took the
> electrical equipment from old trolley buses and reused it in new ones.
It was Seattle, that used old electrical gear, refurbished it, and stuck it in brand new Gillig Phantom bus bodies. Now those buses are being retired as we speak.
> Modern trolleybuses are primarily single or double articulated (that's where the internal
> combustion engines start to get weak).
Again, in Seattle, most trolley buses were 40' (non-articulated) Gillig Phantoms, although they did have about 70 articulated buses. Plenty of non-articulated trolley buses in Vancouver, San Francisco, etc. So far most of the double-articulated buses I can find are in fact diesel (or diesel-hybrid), NOT trolleys.
