Trolleybuses in an ice storm

[daytontrolleys]

Tuesday night would've been better, ice was hanging off the wires. By Wednesday, the rain and melting in the early morning got rid of most of the ice.

For those wondering, due to road construction on I-75, Dayton only has the "franchise run" in the morning and afternoon running on Rts 1 and 2. As the I-75 rebuilding completes, the trolleys will return to service.

[Daytonbuses]

Wish we could have seen some of this last night! To bad trolley service is now very limited.

[ianjohn05]

Ohio has trolley busses.... COOL! I thought San Francisco was the only American city that had them. Learned something new. 

[tkandme3]

@ianjohn05 no, san fran has tourist ones which blow. The original ones are in PHILADELPHIA.

[ianjohn05]

@tkandme3

No, the trolley buses in San Francisco are part of the normal transit infracture of SF. The cable cars in SF are for tourists. And what makes the ones in Phili original when any other major city outside of the USA has them: Moscow, Kiev, Nice, Milano, Belgrade, Perm, Genoa, etc....

[Airox2009]

Nice, a white Bonneville SSE from the late 80`s or early 90`s! Those cars are getting rare!

[cmcharlesmillar]

I remember seeing that as a kid growing up in Edmonton, lberta Canada they ran old Brill coashes made by Can Car, I now live in Calgary Alberta where our bus fleet is almost exclusively Flyerswe have a fleet of close to 1000 coaches

[opal0022]

Hmmf. That can't possibly be good for the electronics of the bus. The Vancouver trolleys would have dewired almost immediately because of the power loss detection system to prevent violent dewirements.

[jefflumpy]

I worked that night and boy was it fun

[Skaliwag66]

I wonder if this was part of the HUGE snowfall that we here in Southern Ontario also got a part of that same time. Our subway was cutting through the ice as bad as these trolleys!

[Bus7777]

A FLYER! OMFG these still run!?!? MUST GO THERE ASAP!!!!

[busrailfan]

@Bus7777 - LoL. Nope. They gone now and as noted in the video info, the video was recorded in February of 1999.

[6V92TA]

You might get lucky and see a few still sitting around in the "bone yard" out beside the garage. As far as them being in service....yea right. Those days are done!

[Transitrider]

That could be dangerous?

[6V92TA]

nah. perfectly safe. Jus 800 volts blast'in ice off the wires in a show of sparks.

[retroolschool]

Vancouver?

[busrailfan]

Dayton...

[Kassikene123]

nice lightshow.

[RDG484]

Philadelphia had IDENTICAL Flyer/AM Generals which they got rid of only a few years ago. Only recently did they (reluctantly) replace them with New Flyer trackless trolleys. Even so the two South Philly ETB routes have been permenantly replaced with dedicated New Flyer Hybrids, leaving only the three Northeast Philly routes as trackless.

[6V92TA]

on my god!!! Flyer 919! i remember this beast on the 4 and 7  routes many of nights! These were tanks!