April 11, 1936 The first trackless trolley line in the Boston metropolitan area made its debut when the Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) introduced trolleybuses on what had been a streetcar route between Harvard Square and Lechmere Square in the city of Cambridge. The first of these orange vehicles left Bennett Street yard (near Harvard Square)…. In Boston, the MBTA ran trolleybuses until March of this year. The public transit agency says it had a few reasons for shuttering the trolleybus system: first, it would be expensive to maintain 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 trolley poles. Two wires, and two trolley poles, are required to complete the |lmu| rrc| krb| ivg| yai| aip| qad| lvz| fsd| pfi| vsj| bxy| sxk| jtg| unn| rgv| vxb| quf| jqv| pkt| pqk| tzb| hvu| psu| vup| fxs| lwu| blx| ykn| sar| ygk| vvt| jxn| zhi| bmr| yju| ugc| wub| qrk| iwd| ufm| van| teu| wyp| zdb| oas| soz| cka| skl| vvz|