Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With no heavy battery, no emissions, no time wasted recharging, trolleybuses are powered entirely by overhead electric wires. At a ...

The Russians attacked a trolleybus depot in the Slobidskyi district in Kharkiv on the night of 29-30 May. Eighteen trolleybuses and 33 residential buildings were damaged and two employees were injured ...

Ludmilla Vasilieva, the driver for the 4:05 p.m. trolleybus, stared impatiently at two foreign tourists who were standing at the bus stop in Yalta, Crimea, contemplating their next move. Since the ...

To get to Yalta, one group of German tourists decide to travel nearly 100 kilometers across the mountains and along the sea by trolleybus instead of taking a taxi. Every 20 minutes, trolleybus 52 ...

Skiers and hikers at the Zerrenpach resort in central Slovakia have been met with an unexpected sight: a Bratislava trolleybus parked near the top of the Látky ski lift, over 1,000 metres above sea ...

Thanks to R. Hill, photographer of the Chicago photo, and to Ken Josephson, computer manipulation of both pictures. The drawing on the left is from a Westinghouse Corp. ad circa 1950. The first ...

Campaign launched as authorities plan to phase out the vehicles, which have operated in city for 83 years To their detractors they are a clunky, slow form of transport, liable to cause traffic jams ...

For transport enthusiast Philip Thomas, the final demise of the trolleybus in Derby was marked with a week-long photographic odyssey. He recalled: “On Sunday, September 3, I had a tour of all the ...

Berlin (dpa) - The trolleybus is considered by many to be clunky technology from the past. But thanks to technical innovation, these so-called silent servants are staging a comeback as some countries ...