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http://www.irm.org/roster/trolley.html

You can see several of them at the Illinois Railway Museum. The ones in Chicago ran off of the same 600VDC traction power as the rail cars. IRM covers quite a few acres so you can hop on an old trolley bus or even older trolley to travel between the various barns.
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Boston: Electric trains and busses are still very common.

Not sure of the operating voltages tho. Enough to kill 3 or more a year (darwin)

The sub way uses both over head and "3rd" rail. on the same line.
Busses are all over head.

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the system in Seattle is still going strong, the diesel/electric busses used to be used primarily in the bus tunnel because of ventilation issues, this is gone now, but we still have miles of 600 VDC lines that power electric equiped busses on most of the major routes in the city, system's still going strong, in fact we still have some diesel/electric busses from the 70's running a couple of the routes

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