A trolley pole is a tapered cylindrical pole of wood or metal, used to transfer electricity from a "live" (electrified) overhead wire to the control and...

trolley pole instead of a trolley shoe. The trolley pole wheel somewhat resembles a pulley. Trolley pole wheels are now rarely used. A collector pole is the...

suspended from roadside posts) using spring-loaded trolley poles. Two wires, and two trolley poles, are required to complete the electrical circuit. This...

by a pantograph sliding on an overhead line; older systems may use a trolley pole or a bow collector. In some cases, a contact shoe on a third rail is...

from overhead lines use a device such as a pantograph, bow collector or trolley pole. It presses against the underside of the lowest overhead wire, the contact...

runs on tramway tracks Trolleybus, or trolley, an electric bus drawing power from overhead wires using trolley poles Trolleytruck, a trolleybus-like vehicle...

Other types of current collectors include the bow collector and the trolley pole. The pantograph, with a low-friction, replaceable graphite contact strip...

Totem pole, monumental sculptures carved from great trees Trolley pole Utility pole, also called a telephone pole, telegraph pole or power pole, a pole that...

powered by two overhead wires, from which it draws electricity using two trolley poles. Two current collectors are required in order to supply and return current...

Little Rock, Arkansas. The fleet and overhead wires were converted from trolley pole to pantograph current collection in early 2003, during a three-month...

common in continental Europe, it was replaced by the pantograph or the trolley pole, itself often later replaced by the pantograph. When the bow collector...

inventor, and pioneer in electric railway technology, including the first trolley pole. Van Depoele was born as Carolus Josephus Vandepoele in Lichtervelde...

only a trolley pole. Flexity Outlook streetcars have both a pantograph and a trolley pole. All streetcars in service had been using the trolley pole until...

the cars were sometimes popularly called trolleys but did not typically draw power through a trolley pole from an overhead wire. Conduit current collection...

city's steep hills and valleys, clearance, and ability to upgrade from trolley poles to a more modern pantograph current collection system. At 30 metres...

suburban trolley routes, which were delivered around the same time. However, the subway–surface cars are single-ended and use trolley poles, while the...

electric grid, provided for electric distribution to trolleys via overhead wires and the trolley pole, and provided control systems for electric operations...

road house serving visitors. Each of the two 16-passenger cars had two trolley poles, one to a positive overhead wire and one to a ground overhead wire,...

transition. His spring-loaded trolley pole used a wheel to travel along the wire. In late 1887 and early 1888, using his trolley system, Sprague installed the...

the trolley car. The trolley pole sits atop a sprung base on the roof of the trolley vehicle, the springs maintaining the tension to keep the trolley wheel...

which cars would stop to have their power collection changed from the trolley pole to the conduit plow and vice versa. "The PCC car was not just another...

front iron net but had a front-coach trolley pole. The both-end type had a front iron net and a rear-coach trolley pole. These were gradually replaced by...

improved method for mounting an electric traction motor and using a trolley pole for pickup. Sprague's work led to widespread acceptance of electric traction...

August 12, 1998, when a trolley pole on a trolleybus stopping at a bus stop in the central Shenhe District slipped off the trolley wires and contacted an...

service on 13 June 1984. All were built with trolley poles, most being replaced with pantographs in 1987/88; six pole-equipped cars (231 to 236) were retaining...

electricity from overhead lines. He improved designs for a spring-loaded trolley pole that had been developed in 1885 by Charles Van Depoele, devised a greatly...

America whose streetcars used double overhead trolley wire (two wires for each track) and twin trolley poles on each streetcar, the only others being Havana...

magnetic track brakes instead of the caliper brakes previously used. Trolley pole current collection was replaced by pantograph collection with the change;...

The Vancouver trolley bus system forms part of the TransLink public transport network serving Metro Vancouver in the Canadian province of British Columbia...

is not compatible with trolley poles that the PCC streetcars were originally equipped with. The car retained its trolley poles, however, for visual effect...