The War Production Board and the Office of Defense Transportation restricted manufacturing and sale of new trolley buses during WWII. Only Pullman-Standard’s Worcester, Massachusetts, plant was permitted to build them during the entire war; other manufacturers were busy making war material instead. Seattle was able to order 30 trolley buses

Like many cities, Des Moines, Iowa, had a large streetcar network, developed around the turn of the 20th Century. Unfortunately, like many other cities, this meant that the cars and the track were starting to wear out at about the same time that increasing automobile use and the Great Depression

M&ST 350 is an electric trolley bus built by Pullman-Standard at its plant in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is typical of hundreds of Pullman-built trolley buses used in many large cities in the United States. Builder: Pullman-Standard Year Built: 1947 Model: 44CX Seats: 44 Length: 38ft Width: 8ft 6in Height: 10ft

Trolley buses in Dayton, Ohio, have a long and rather unusual history. One of six private streetcar companies in the city, the Dayton Street Railway Co., suffered a car barn fire in 1932 that destroyed most of its fleet. It borrowed cars from other companies to get by, but falling

The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Co. served Milwaukee residents’ transit needs well, operating electric interurban lines to outlying towns and streetcars and motor buses in the city. Starting in 1936, they began replacing some streetcar routes with trolley buses, which they called “trackless trolleys” as in many Northeastern cities.

Few cities tested the ability of trolley buses to handle steep hills more than San Francisco. Considering the abnormally short lifespan of engines and transmissions in motor buses there, the city has retained trolley buses, and has the largest fleet in North America. Although service began on one line in