Baltimore Transit Company Pulman trolleybus. Baltimore Maryland USA. Late 1940's era.

 

I found this color photograph from the Baltimore Transit Company at My Link page Tom's Trolleybus Pictures, located to the right of your computer screen at www.trolleybuses.net

 

A popular form of public transportation vehicle that operated on many North American city transit companies several decades ago, was the rubber tired electric powered trolleybus. Many citties in the United States, and Canada, operated these during the transition from electric streetcars to motorbuses.

 

Cost effective when introduced, these buses utilized the same overhead wires and electrical sub stations already in use by the electric streetcar routes, but required no track maintenance.

 

Eventually, the high cost of overhead wire maintenance, limited operating flexibility and sometimes costly specialized repairs, would find many of the citties using these, converting to cost effective diesel powered transit buses.

 

The Baltimore Transit Company operated electric trolleybuses from 1922 to 1931, and later brought them back in 1938, and operated them once again until phased out for good in 1959.

 

Thanks.

Eddie K.