Trolley Boats...

[JCitron]

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2009/12/trolley-canal-boats.html

This is awesome. A longtime rail fan and friend of mine sent me this.

John

 

[Red_Rattler]

I must be seeing things

Either I'm seeing things, or you just had a title saying "trolley boats"

Edit: Well just about every other power has been used for boats (including horse power - yes real horses!), so why not.

Edit again: Overhead wires/caternary for private cars next?? :hehe:
Edit: Some cities classed/class their trolley buses as trams, so I wonder if trolley boats would be classed as trams! hehe

 

[simulatortrain]

That is too cool!

 

[sawyer811]

dude, i want this for the game, this looks totally awesome! (paging vulcan?:hehe: )

that's very ingenious, and really flippin' cool!

 

[daylightguy]

I got to admit that is cool although the captin better know what he is dooing or the pole might come off that is what kind of plauged the trolly busses. but still that should be made for trainz.

 

[GossenGarrat]

Well, I wouldn't imagine that it would be too hard. Trolley bus wires and poles already exist, so do boats that run on invisible track. I think motorman1066 made invisible track with wires along with tracking poles for trolley buses, someone probably could modify one of the many drivable boats to make it look like a trolley boat

 

[Deano5]

A very interesting article, I had no idea that such systems existed.
I would love the job of driving one of those electric mules.