The last of the electric-powered trackless trolleys that have carried passengers over the roads of Cambridge, Watertown and Belmont for more than 80 years will make their final runs Saturday night, as ...

__1882: __Ernst Werner von Siemens tests a demonstration "trackless trolley" in a Berlin suburb. The innovative device pulls electricity from overhead wires, but runs with road wheels, not on rails.

A veteran of WWII, Richard Parker grew up in Pawtucket, studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, and moved to New York, working in the New York advertising world. He now lives in South Kingstown.

We often say, around here, variations on “There is nothing new under the sun.” This 1950 United Electric Railways trolley photo from our archives proves it. Note this is a trackless trolley, riding on ...

CityDig: The Trackless Trolleys of Laurel Canyon Los Angeles later earned its reputation as a car city, but in the early 20th century it was a laboratory for innovative transportation technologies. In ...

AROUND NOON on the 15th of December 1940, when the winter sun cast long shadows over the Seattle Transit System’s new fleet of trackless trolleys, the veteran commercial photographer Frank Jacobs took ...