SEPTA Route 66 at Frankford Transportation Center

SEPTA is one of only a handful of transit companies that still uses trackless trolleys (or trolley buses) in daily operation. Route 66 goes from the Frankford Transportation Center to Torresdale via Frankford Ave. These few clips show the trackless departing and arriving at Frankford Transportation Center.

[@General19791]

We are grateful to have trackless trolleys in our town.

[@shoujianchen6324]

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[@fredpohl5202]

I rode and photographed the ACF Brills and Marmon Herrington's on these lines back in the day

[@argopunk]

Cool. We got rid of our trolley buses in '91. Just streetcars, subways, buses, and soon LRTs (Toronto).

[@johnnycage4514]

How come there was a electric shock when the poles turned is the bus down for bit

[@timosha21]

excellent video of the trackless trolley! I believe Boston, San Franscisco and Seattle are the other cities with such modes of transport in the US! Correct me if I am wrong!

[@trolleytravels]

Thanks for compliment. In addition to the cities you already named, Dayton, Ohio has a trackless system as well. I believe it has the distinction of being the smallest US city to have them. Of course, there's also Philadelphia which is the location of my video here.

[@timosha21]

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Oh really??? I guess you learn something new everyday. Kind of like Kenosha, Wisconsin -> smallest city with an operational streetcar system.

[@courtneylischa2763]

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[@billw.9743]

THANK YOU!!
I live in Dayton and we are going to get a new fleet of 'Trolley Coaches'! (not buses) 2019.
REMEMBER!, the first three letters in diesel----'DIE'

[@timosha21]

Just came back from Dayton - nice new generation trolleys but did not see anything else running? Are the older models gone?

[@josephheston9238]

Were the trolleybuses built in Canada? The reason I've asked because I've noticed some subtle differences between the trolleybuses (like the squared off corners on the bottom edge of the windshield, which are on the Canadian NFs of that age) and the later hybrids (which has the rounded corners).

[@panta123playsoldacount9]

2:08 so many 66 came

[@ploopy5235]

Yeah, they run buses on the 66 every couple minutes.

[@zenvio]

2:59 that trolleybus did a spark without dewiring!
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Edit: uhh yeah! It can spark, or dewire.