• ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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    4 days ago

    Technically this type of trolleybus also has a battery for very short runs so it can run between power lines.

    The last one was a temporary conversion of a 260 into a railbus near Pusztaszabolcs, and it ran on diesel which made sense as a lot of Hungarian lines were not - and still are not - electrified. It later got converted back because the large wheelbase made it struggle with turns on the line.

    These small lines in Hungary are usually serviced by BzMot diesel trains.

    I got it from Hungarian Wikipedia https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sínautóbusz

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      4 days ago

      A rail conversion! That’s pretty cool, like in RttF2!

      I didn’t know trolleybuses already had batteries back in the eighties, I thought it was a more recent development, that’s super cool too.

      Also, that 260 is a fine looking bus, most buses I’ve seen in the last decades looked pretty mah imo.