Tom's North American (Canada, USA, Mexico) Trolleybus Pix (original) (raw)

Tom's North American Trolley Bus Pictures

UPDATE: March 2024

Hoosier Traction Meet

The 2024 Hoosier Traction Meet will be at the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum on Fri-Sat Jun 7-8 2024

The Prospectus is HERE

Trackless Trolley Gazette

Map is clickable -- click circle corresponding to city you want. Click the words on top for more stuff

Click on a dot

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A big thanks to Stephen Scalzo, who has sent me several thousand pix from his collection.

For those who can't see the map ...

Baltimore MD	Boston MA	Brooklyn and Queens Transit	Johnstown PA	Philadelphia PA	Providence RI	Public Service Coordinated Transport (NJ)	Wilkes-Barre PA
Wilmington DE	Fitchburg MA	Rochester NY	Atlanta GA	Birmingham AL	Dallas TX	Greensboro NC/Greenville SC	New Orleans LA
Shreveport LA	Knoxville TN	Memphis TN	Louisville KY	Little Rock AR	Fort Wayne IN	Indianapolis IN	Akron OH
Cincinnati OH	Cleveland OH	Columbus OH	Dayton OH	Toledo OH	Youngstown OH	Chicago IL	Des Moines IA
Detroit MI	Duluth MN	Flint MI	Kansas City MO	Milwaukee WI	Peoria IL	Rockford IL	St Joseph MO
Kenosha WI	Topeka KS	Denver CO	Honolulu HI	Los Angeles CA	Portland OR	Salt Lake City UT	San Francisco CA
Seattle WA	Halifax NS	Montreal QC	Ottawa ON	Cornwall ON	Toronto ON	Hamilton ON	Kitchener ON
Port Arthur / Fort William / Thunder Bay ON	Winnipeg MB	Regina SK	Saskatoon SK	Calgary AB	Edmonton AB	Vancouver BC	Illinois Railway Museum, Union IL
Guadalajara JAL	Mexico City DF	Seashore Trolley Museum Kennebunkport ME	Merrill WI	Miscellaneous Odds and Ends and Ads	Links to Other Trolleybus Websites	Links to Trolleybus Museums (static displays)	About trolleybuses.net
Fairhaven MA	New Haven CT	St John NB	Albany/Cohoes NY	Virginia	Buffalo NY	Pittsburgh PA	Windsor ON
Minneapolis MN	Oklahoma City OK

Trolleybuses.net is a non-profit (that is, this site doesn't generate income) entity dedicated to educating all who have an interest on the history of trolleybuses in North America (Canada, Mexico and the US). Where photographer and/or current image owner are known, the info is included with the picture.

Whether you refer to it as a trolleybus, a trolley bus, a trolleycoach, a trolley coach, a trackless trolley, an electric bus, or an electric trolley bus ( ETB ) they ran in quite a few North American cities. By the end of the 20th Century, only 9 cities in North America still operated them: Boston, Philadelphia, Dayton, Seattle, San Francisco, Edmonton, Vancouver, Mexico City and Guadalajara. Two museums, the Illinois Railway Museum and the Seashore Trolley Museum, also display and operate trolleybuses.

Major North American trolleybus manufacturers were AM General, Brill (American Car ACF and Canadian Car CCF), Electric Transit Industries (ETI), Flyer, Kenworth, Marmon Herrington, Neoplan, Pullman Standard, St Louis Car Company and Twin Coach (Fageol). Mitsubishi and Toshiba built trolleybuses for Mexico City. New Flyer is building (late 2006) new Vancouver and Philadelphia trolleybuses.

If you have trolleybus pictures or stories of trolleybuses and trolleycoaches, please drop me a line!