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...
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Current collector (redirect from Trolley pole wheel)
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...
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Trolleybus (redirect from Trolley bus)
suspended from roadside posts) using spring-loaded trolley poles. Two wires, and two trolley poles, are required to complete the electrical circuit. This...
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Tram (redirect from Trolley car)
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...
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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...
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runs on tramway tracks Trolleybus, or trolley, an electric bus drawing power from overhead wires using trolley poles Trolleytruck, a trolleybus-like vehicle...
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Other types of current collectors include the bow collector and the trolley pole. The pantograph, with a low-friction, replaceable graphite contact strip...
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inventor, and pioneer in electric railway technology, including the first trolley pole. Van Depoele was born as Carolus Josephus Vandepoele in Lichtervelde...
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Little Rock, Arkansas. The fleet and overhead wires were converted from trolley pole to pantograph current collection in early 2003, during a three-month...
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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...
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