Trolley Poles of the Silver Line

A video taken at silver line way, showing the trolley poles being raised and lowered.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Silver line
• MBTA
• Trolley Poles
• Trolley Bus
• Trolleybus
• electric
• catenary

[dredre1315]

u get a video of their video of their doors closing in the inside

[TNT314159]

What do you mean?

[jdgator95]

Cool i've always wondered how they get the poles exactly on the wire

happy national train day

[TNT314159]

Happy national train day to you too!

[TNT314159]

I agree, she could have turned off the bus when releasing the pole securing mechanism, especially since she was switching to electric anyway. When the silver line runs the SL1 route to logan, the operator has to get out and secure the poles after lowering them (and release them when raising them again). It could have something to do with the fact that the bus goes through another tunnel that isn't electrified. On the SL2 route, the operator can just raise and lower the poles from inside the bus.

[sieman700]

these buses are

Neoplan-DMA LF (dual-mode) (funded by Massport)