The World’s Only Village Trolleybus Of Solonceni, Moldova

A small village in Moldova had electric public transportation right in the middle of the Soviet Union collapse and civil war on the other bank of the river. They went zero emissions in one of the most difficult times of their modern history and meanwhile your city can't do it even today! This is a story of the oddities of the communist system and, what's most important, caring and passionate people that made the world's only village trolleybus possible.
00:00 - Intro
00:57 - What is a trolleybus?
02:26 - The history of Solonceni trolleybus
04:01 - Trolleybus and its impact on the city (or village)
05:50 - The operation of Solonceni trolleybus
07:44 - Solonceni residents remember the trolleybus
08:43 - The end of Solonceni trolleybus
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[@mwitbrot]

There are no wheels on the tip of each pole. Maybe once were, but now there are graphite slides (graphite "cube" that slides on the wire).

[@SianaGearz]

This is true, also already of... well about 50, 60 years ago? I don't know how long the graphite shoe goes back exactly, but it's been that way for a long while.

[@user-we3no5pw9n]

there is a different type with a (graphite as well) wheel in the pole. makes a different noise like scritching. i think they have that in boston trolleybuses but im not sure. in my city we have the graphite pads/slides as well.

[@EgorStirbu]

I'm from Solonceni. And, being a child, I used this trolleybus to go home from kindergarten :D

[@EgorStirbu]

@@vladvulcan )))) бирюзово-фиолетово-синий

[@wowek00]

@@vladvulcan Есть его цветные фото уже снова в Кишиневе, на 18 маршруте. Красный он был.

[@calindicusar]

La sec 47, nanu Serafim :)

[@Stefan_BusFan]

Chiar avea destui călători troleul?

[@marius-cd2np]

@@Stefan_BusFan nu conta pe vremea aia, ca era platit de stat. nu era "goana dupa bani", ci "arta de dragul artei"

[@reggiesmith3866]

Many towns and cities in UK used to run trolleybuses but stupidly replaced them with diesel buses just before the huge increase in the price of oil of the 1970s! They were quiet, smooth, very good at climbing hills and their tyres lasted longer than those of diesel buses. My advice to countries still running them is dont make the mistake UK made, KEEP THEM!

[@nicholaskelly1958]

The reason why the UK virtually ceased using trams and trolleybus vehicles was largely due to to the nationalisation of the electricity industry in 1948.

[@CaptainM792]

Hong Kong did experiment with trolleybuses back in the 1970s or 80s. But it failed so we never got to ride on trolleybuses here in Hong Kong.

[@anonyshinki]

And here you have Moscow replacing its entire enormous trolleybus network with a few electric and mostly diesel buses in 2020-2021...

[@sundog486]

Yes, I rode on the trolley-busses in south London, they were very quit and smooth. I also was on the last tram - I still have the ticket!

[@arthurvasey]

We had trolley buses that plied the route between North Ormesby, Eston and Normanby - the poles were forever falling off the wires where turnings prevailed!

[@enricomonti156]

Even in Italy they are going strong and are facing a revival. At the moment there are active trolleybus networks in: *Rome *Milan *Naples (urban and interurban) *Genoa *Bologna *Parma *Modena *Rimini (both routes, 11 and Metromare are interurban) *Ancona *Chieti *Sanremo (an urban and interurban network where you can enjoy an amazing view while riding it)

[@itze25]

You seem to be forgetting the one at Lecce..

[@nicholaskelly1958]

I was just thinking about that!

[@enricomonti156]

@@itze25 I forgot that one, but I don't know how long it will survive

[@Gmagnani100]

Also Cagliari

[@Pietro-Smusi]

padova?

[@davidpopovici7784]

I LIVE IN MOLDOVA AND I KNOW ABOUT THIS FAMOUS VILLAGE WITH A TROLLYBUS. I REALLY EXPECTED A VIDEO ABOUT IT AND IT CAME! THANKS FOR SHARING THIS STORY ABROAD. RESPECT FROM MOLDOVA 🇲🇩

[@nmpls]

The main reason San Francisco still has trolleybuses is because they're substantially better at climbing hills, with Muni stating that some of the current hills (which can exceed 22%) would be effectively unclimbable by a diesel bus. Trolleybuses are great and quite a bit quieter than diesel busses. Also, Mexico City has a substantial trolleybus system which has recently expanded, and Guadalajara has a single line. Trolleybuses are not that uncommon in Latin America, Sao Paulo, Quito, Valparaiso (Chile) and Argentina (3 systems), but no where near the level of former soviet states of course.

[@AlexCab_49]

I suspect only San Francisco goes anywhere close to having the amount of trolleybuses in Soviet cities.

[@almisami]

It's a real shame this ended because someone with power refused to pillage what was given and then was promptly replaced by someone that would.

[@RailwaysoftheWorld1]

It's sad, but it would have happened anyway. Last year Moldova shut down its entire passenger railway service 😱

[@eugenpedersen3408]

@@RailwaysoftheWorld1 Hej. I come form Moldova. Very interesting video. At least I can say that in other trolleybus cities in Moldova the networks are still working today. The trolleybus network in Chisinau has grown both with many new routes and new lowfloor and wireless trolleybuses as well which I think is very positive. You could also make a video about the Chisinau trolleybus system :-)

[@RailwaysoftheWorld1]

@@eugenpedersen3408 I definitely will!

[@eugenpedersen3408]

@@RailwaysoftheWorld1 Nice. I am looking forward to see it :-)

[@enricomonti156]

@@RailwaysoftheWorld1 was it due to unprofitability?

[@dim0nad605]

I'm from Moldova, Tiraspol, and I know about this village, Solonceni. In our city trolleybus is too. And we have intercity trolleybus - the 19th trolleybus.

[@gregres9539]

Between November 1998 and October 1990 there were two trolleybus lines connected town Dębica and the village Straszęcin. The lines were 5-6 km long. These two places are situated in south-east Poland, about 110 km east of Cracow. Thanks to these lines workers of the firm 'Igloopol' were able to reach the work from their homes. It is the other story what 'Igloopol' firm was. That is why we have to say that Solonceni was not the only one village in the World which possesed a trolleybus line. That other village was Straszęcin. Some of the relics of the lines can be seen until today. Greetings from Rzeszów, Poland.

[@na_luzie]

That's right. Today there are only traction poles remain in Straszęcin and Debica.

[@AndreyBC]

Заяц,ты был лучший! Царствие тебе небесное!!! 🕯️

[@Anatoli-y]

Im living in Moldova, and only today i discovered that interesting fact. Algorithms of KZbin getting better..

[@crististefanescu8169]

Such a nice video.I am from Romania,Moldavia"s neighbor country and i love to learn more about Moldavia.Big like!

[@sergeychibisov8481]

Moldova , Moldavia s a sfârșit în 1990

[@postualin6551]

@@sergeychibisov8481 da

[@user-do5ue4rv5o]

@@sergeychibisov8481 Молдавия

[@sergeychibisov8481]

@@user-do5ue4rv5o что Молдавия? Официально переименовали в июне 1990 года . Или ты проспал на печи .

[@user-df8po9qp5w]

@@sergeychibisov8481 а где такая страна? Хотела бы поехать по Туве, Монголии на авто, на каникулах, но сейчас много запретов из за коронавируса.

[@tallslimguy]

As a kid I rode the famous London double decker trolley buses and they really were fast. Shame they were take out of service although once all the poles and cables were removed, the towns did look a lot more tidy and smart.

[@michalsladek2668]

I honestly never understood the argument that the poles and cables look bad. They're pretty much everywhere around here and I never really notice them. If someone asked me to draw a picture of a tram stop in front of my house, I'm pretty sure I'd forget to draw the poles and the cables.

[@RailwaysoftheWorld1]

It's a valid argument for super polished cities where all other cables are buried under the ground and the only poles are for lighting, traffic lights and transit cameras.

[@asiersanz8941]

And afterwards as a kid I rode those very same double decker trolley buses from London that were brought to Bilbao in the Basque Country after being removed from your city. I remember how happy I would take line 1 to go to my grndma's home.🙂

[@mjb4340]

Salzburg is a really clean and beautiful city and has a Trolleybus since 1940 with lots of wires over the whole city. So, that's not quite an argument

[@user-sp4ti4be5u]

спасибо, прерасный репортаж! Низкий поклон могиле Николая Зайца, благословенна память порядочного человека(жаль мало о нем информации)!!! вот такие люди патриоты!, хозяева своей земли, не смотря, что коммунист, сейчас так называемое правители Молдовы не сравнятся, с теми кто строил и развивал, а не ворует и убивает!!!

[@jimmyj1969]

We had ZIU trolley-buses in Athens, Greece, from 1978 until mid-'00s! They gradually replaced Lancia, Fiat & Alfa Romeo trolley-buses from 1940s and 1950s (first introduced by italians during the WWII occupation!) and they 've been replaced in mid '00s by modern MAN & VanHool trolley-buses (some of them articulated), which are still in operation.

[@RailwaysoftheWorld1]

That’s a whole other interesting topic - soviet trolleybuses in exotic places (Greece is like another planet for us 😃)

[@jimmyj1969]

@@RailwaysoftheWorld1 When retired, some of Athens' ZIU trolley-buses were donated to Serbia, where they continued operating in various cities (I don't know until when or if any of them are stil on the road).

[@mayakstudios7292]

Ммм, в России ZIU работают во всех городах, в большинстве городов составляют основу парка

[@vivalaTramp_vivalaRusia.]

@@mayakstudios7292 Пока что, уже не за горами и их последний путь!

[@mayakstudios7292]

@@vivalaTramp_vivalaRusia. не за горами закрытие троллейбусных систем в России

[@ememzet86]

To the author of this channel: you’re a crazy man 😉 Your professionalism, top-level journalism, hardworking… it’s all simply remarkable. You devote your unbelievable skills to your passion, where in fact you could easily earn tons of cash making movies in mainstream topics. It’s simply amazing and so rare nowadays 🤩

[@RailwaysoftheWorld1]

Thank you, man, I highly appreciate it!

[@fear-is-a-token]

Would you tell people about the Crimean intercity trolleybus system between Simferopol and Yalta? I live there and would be happy to share some knowledge if you ask)

[@MaxBaxPamparapa]

@@vladvulcan no не буду

[@Filin_off]

Он до сих работает?

[@fear-is-a-token]

@@vladvulcan я в курсе, родной, просто хочу, чтобы басурмане тоже что-то поняли))

[@fear-is-a-token]

@@Filin_off живее всех живых!

[@lastivchin]

В Саратове с недавних пор тоже междугородний троллейбус появился

[@neunundfuenfzigposition]

This cool channel isn’t dead!! Great to see. Keep up the fantastic videos dude!

[@RailwaysoftheWorld1]

Thank you! I had no intention of dying 😁

[@InfiniteConstellations]

Я помню эти старые троллейбусы, такая тёплая память о них с детства) Новые, конечно, светлые, просторные и со всеми удобствами, но они даже более шумные, чем их собраться из середины 2010-х.

[@ohnoitsjoe]

3 Cities in Germany also have a Trolleybus, Esslingen am Neckar, Solingen and Eberswalde.

[@calfamagdalen6039]

Cities, but not villages, still pretty cool

[@worldpeace6322]

Hier in Timișoara, Rumänien haben wir ein paar Trolleybusse aus Eberswalde 😅

[@ethodda]

In Netherlands there's a trolleybus system in Arnhem

[@user-ex6nq2lf7q]

Привет молдаван

[@user-ex6nq2lf7q]

@@worldpeace6322 Привет молдаване

[@janhanchenmichelsen2627]

What a story! BTW, the trolleybus system in Bergen, Norway just (almost) doubled the route lenght. The ten new Solaris articulated buses are all equipped with a battery (11 km range) because a of some low tunnels and a steep bridge. Both difficult to electrify. The buses are main line powered up the hills from downtown, recharging at the same time. Very nice.

[@Hardtransport]

What an interesting story, it`s incredible to think that village runs that trolleybus a couple of years

[@postualin6551]

Moldovan here 🙋‍♂️

[@josephj.6478]

Thank you for continuing to post these cool.and informative videos 😀 Really like this channel

[@VESELYE]

У нас в Краснодаре до сих пор эти троллейбусы 70 годов ездят с такими же старыми трамваями

[@x71345]

набрал запрос в Яндексе (Краснодар городской транспорт) - в разделе картинок в подавляющем большинстве свежие машины.

[@mayakstudios7292]

​​@@x71345само собой. В Краснодаре осталось 5 советских троллейбусов, самый старый 1981 года

[@millsyinnz]

Interesting video. Here in New Zealand we had trolleybuses. Christchurch, closed in 1956, New Plymouth, closed in 1967, Auckland, closed in 1980, Dunedin, closed in 1982 and finally, Wellington, closed in 2017 (despite a supposedly sympthetic government coming to power that year and having a chance to fund the network to stay running). Curiously the small town of Foxton also had a trolleybus network in the 1980's and 1990's, though that was run as a tourist attraction and built by a local enthusiast at his own expense. I belive in the former USSR they have trolleytruck systems.

[@mariankryszczak5345]

Thank you for another interesting video!

[@APiesc]

I like trolley-bus-systems, though they are rare in most countries. They're the most environmentally-friendly systems in public transport, besides tramway-systems.

[@AndrejPodzimek]

2:10 Czech Škoda trolleybuses serving in San Francisco are (or at least were) a very surprising history chapter. That right there is probably a Škoda 14Tr. Also the articulated Škoda 15Tr served in San Francisco at least until 2015.

[@chevrolet1319]

Dayton, Ohio’s Škoda 14TrE is more historic, they had them 1st 1995-1998, San Francisco’s were 2001-2003 models.

[@Obitatel_Suomi]

2:12 Škoda 14TrM in Kharkiv

[@peterisgoogling9998]

I love that trolleybus overtaking other cars: @1:50. These have pretty good acceleration and breaks. I remember riding one of trolleybuses in Gdynia, Poland. You have to hold tight to something if you standing while riding on trolleybus.

[@RailwaysoftheWorld1]

Yeah, Tesla from the '50s. It's actually from a pretty good movie, ("Beware of the Car" / "Watch Out for the Automobile") and the actress had to attend 3-month trolleybus driver courses.

[@ivveG]

Very interesting! And great English voiceover that openes the content to a wider audience. Great work!

[@Frankfurtdabezzzt]

What a lovely video! I really want to visit Moldova at some point, seems very welcoming

[@botatobias2539]

I just want to state that the people in this video are speaking Romanian, not Russian. For accuracy sake.

[@Soprotivlenie_Bespolezno]

Не стоит забывать, что в Доброполье троллейбус ходил в посёлок, где посреди улицы с дырявыми дорогами разворачивался и ехал обратно в город

[@eduardovasconcelos2485]

I live in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais - Brazil. We had once quite a lot of trolleybuses till the government decided to shut them down. There was 9 different routes/lines and circa 30km of structure operated from 1953 to 1969. In the 80's, a plan to reinstall the service was made, aiming to connect the northern Venda Nova region to the city centre. 55 trolleybuses were purchased, along with new electrical equipment and other supplies. 42 buses were made, but due to a government corruption scandal, they've never been delivered. Two of them were used for marketing purposes and presented to the public and media at the time. But since the project was aborted, all the other forty units were sold to companies from Rosario (Argentina) and São Paulo (Brazil, neighbour state). The only two remaining buses were parked in a government facility, stored with all the other goods bought then for the system installation. In July 2021, After thirty years rotting under time, these buses were auctioned off as scrap. All other forty buses sold in the late 80's/early 90's are still in operation to this very day, carrying thousands of people on comfortable rides with no emissions.

[@gg_vard]

Your videos are very interesting and informative! And slightly funny with the editing

[@SlackActionBumble]

This video really does have everything. Rock music about public transit, civil war, Beethoven listening cows...

[@Artwar09]

In Poland, Gdynia we have trolleybuses, they are amazing. I hope they get more popular one day.

[@timosha21]

I'm a train and I approve this video!!!

[@tracynation2820]

An excellent video. Hello from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. 💙 T.E.N.

[@Jeanarouet]

Great content! Greetings from Slovakia!

[@strassenbahntk]

A great story, thank you!

[@gabifrate4158]

Greetings from Romania! Great video

[@gachimuchienjoyer]

Надеюсь когда-нибудь туда вернётся троллейбус

[@EgorStirbu]

без шансов! людей почти не осталось, фермы давно нету. ничего! бедность и безысходность!

[@gachimuchienjoyer]

@@EgorStirbu как вариант в формате частной музейной линии

[@ruslan_inspired]

Анриал

[@gachimuchienjoyer]

@@ruslan_inspired надежда умирает последней

[@ruslan_inspired]

@@gachimuchienjoyer просто я живу в Молдове

[@mariafilip6731]

Mersi pentru video **

[@antonv.]

Nice trolleybuses there!

[@daciatravel.647]

Great video!

[@hammers612]

Very interesting !

[@samkuzel]

Buddy that's a spectacular gag at 1:42 👏

[@jmusic2024]

Wow amazing video

[@zhyrcheslav1125]

Что за песня играет на моменте 7:45 и далее, на заднем фоне, что то очень знакомое но шазам зацепиться не может. Please help, i heed name of the song playing from 7:45, something i know, but cant remeber. Shazam cannot recognize it.

[@Ulochki_Feodosii]

- Что вы знаете про Молдову? - А, это где-то в России.. )

[@user-vo2vz7nb7x]

Это где-то в СССР

[@user-rd6rp4ud4w]

@@user-vo2vz7nb7x да , проветающая Молдова осталась в СССР 😢

[@mariafilip6731]

Fu

[@railfanpolska]

Beautiful 👍

[@HenrysAdventures]

Love the Lada at 0:14! Very rare in the UK now!

[@chatnoir1224]

Still a wrong decision. Trolleybus or trams are needed in cities where there is high passenger capacity. Maintenance cost for trolleybus line are too high for the village. The village could have spent money on buying a small bus and repair the road. Want to decrease cost even more? Buy bus with gaz engine instead of petrol.

[@user-ft9ul5ul5v]

There was no commercially available CNG buses at the time, they appeared in Moldova Ukraine Southern Russia and Crimea in late '00s

[@Markowski161]

Wow! In Rostov-on-Don be in 1990 17 trams and 23 trolleybus ways. But in 1999 5 trams and 9 trolleybus. In 2020 13 trolleybus and 5 trams.

[@run4restrun259]

В Иркутске такие же выходят на линии, но жаль что состояние близко к металлолому

[@deft-to1xp]

Да ещё в десятке городов троллейбусы на линии в состоянии близком к металлолому, но зато в москве троллейбусы в лучшем состоянии были заменены на электробусы. Несомненно вы рады этому событию!

[@GetToHellOut]

@@deft-to1xp все те московские троллейбусы были розданы в другие города бесплатно, в Красноярск например, несколько попали.

[@canalulrandom4849]

at around 8:06 i swear i hear ''a fost odata sa scapati autobuzul...'' which translates to ''did you once miss the bus...'' not ''when they removed the trolleybus...''

[@RailwaysoftheWorld1]

This might be true. The original video was transliterated by some Romanian girl from Fiverr and then Google Translated. At that time I didn't know better.

[@canalulrandom4849]

Either way, great video!

[@ianjeffery6744]

There were rural/village trolleybus systems elsewhere in Europe, such as the former Val de Ruz line in Switzerland...

[@Telecolor-in3cl]

I think Laussane had a interurban trolleybus system.

[@Road7IRunner]

Самая ламповая документалка в мире!)

[@s87583]

Thankful

[@user-kx8no8dr4f]

Great!)

[@stefangherman8408]

I didn't know until this year that Sibiu had an trolleybus line. And hilariously at that time, when treolleybus line was shut down, mr. Klaus Iohannis the President of Romania was the mayor of Sibiu.

[@ewanduffy]

2:34 - not just capitalist companies. I previously worked as an accountant in the public sector in Ireland - the exact same "rules" applied!

[@SMGJohn]

Correction, in Socialism the planners are given credit which they can use to acquire resources with, in this case the trolley buss and needed infrastructure, if credit was not spent and returned, it was reduced the next year as the state did not have unlimited amounts of resources and it was an efficient method back then before the computer to control spenditure of resources, in otherwords, the credit was a regulator to prevent needless expenditure of resources, it was not money, because money circulates, however credit, does not circulate, therefore, it is not money. However as time moved on, the credit system was slowly being replaced by computer network systems which meant the national planners could better allocate resources as needed, but USSR was destroyed and couped before this system could fully be implemented, in North Korea this system is now prime method of resource acquisition, and the old credit system is mostly replaced. If you want to know more about how planning worked under Socialist economics and how money and credit were used, Che Guevara wrote several outstanding books on the matter explaining these functions and behaviours a lot easier than what the Soviet did.

[@Brick-Life]

awesome new video

[@user-kq9xv2wc1c]

I am from moldova and now that exactly trolleybus is on route 3 in Chisinau (It was repaired and upgraded)

[@iskatel39]

Очень интересно! Повезло селянам в своё время.

[@bfgb9269]

In Swiss the cities of St. Gallen, Winterthur, Schaffhausen, Zürich, Luzern, Bern, Lausanne, Genf, Neuchâtel, Fribourg and Vevey-Villeneuve have an active Trolleybus plus there was a Trolleybus in Altstätten-Berneck | Basel | Freiburg-Farvagny | La Chaux-de-Fonds | Lugano | Thun-Beatenbucht and Val de Ruz.

[@KostyanKhm]

Not only in Soloncheni. In Vuglegirsk and Dobropilya was trolleybus as well.

[@Irish-transport]

Cool vid

[@garrymarius8881]

I would like to see a video about the organization of public transport in Europe(Germany Belgium Switzeland etc),electronic payment,conplex bus stations, logistics, depots,(how budget is organized ,gasoline/electric/hydrogen fuel which are better) etc vs Chisinau Moldova,because they cannot modernize it for almost 15 years,while in EU that s smth usual.

[@kocourmacek7216]

interesting video! Thumbs up!! 🚎🚎🚎🚎🚎🚎🚎🚎

[@eduardmrva3762]

Brings back memories from my childhood - sounds, views (and specific smells) of Škoda 14 Tr, old troleybusses from Communist Czechoslovakia (made in 80s). 208 line from Bratislava, Slovakia (until 17.11.1989 communist Czechoslovakia, until 31.12.1992 Czechoslovakia) that I used to travel to school (and elsewhere) in the late 90s/early 2000s. Sometimes these old trolleybusses are still used as replacement trolleybuses, when the newer models break down: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a36zi4d4aZ2XZ6M

[@user-mc5mu1xl4w]

Even a Moldovan village has trolleybuses, but not Moscow The network was dismantle a year ago, which is very sad

[@nottelling8129]

I didn't know they actually used the K-700 for stuff like towing trolleybusses! I only heard of it in Spintires!

[@RailwaysoftheWorld1]

That was probably the only trolleybus that was towed by K-700 and that was probably because the trolleybus was owned by farm which had to choose among the agriculture vehicles it already had.

[@wulfrunian]

Most trolleybuses use a carbon insert rather than a wheeled collector. Much less likely to dewire. I used to drive trolleybuses at the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley.

[@railfanjogja1411]

Nice

[@iannarita9816]

Interesting tale.

[@FaimortiseArt]

Троллейбус был хорошим видом транспорта - нет вредных выбросов, не загазовывает город, тихий, высокий КПД, удобен в большом городе с большим пассажиропотоком. Но есть и недостаток - это контактная сеть (КС). Маршрут зависим от контактной сети, ибо троллейбус поедет только туда, куда протянуты провода, а ещё контактную сеть надо обслуживать. Соответственно, будущее за электробусами - тоже самое, что и троллейбус, только вместо КС работает от аккумуляторных батарей. Тем более сейчас уже существуют литий ионные аккумуляторные батареи. Но и тут есть недостаток - дорого и требует много времени для зарядки.

[@romanvershinenko3197]

Поэтому троллейбус с автономным ходом - прекрасное решение

[@alexwolf1573]

Троллейбусы умрут когда АКБ станут дешевыми, Тоесть еще очень не скоро).

[@mayanlogos92]

im so proud!

[@simonvancoevorden295]

Wellington NZ has a modern trolley bus system!

[@nicholaskelly1958]

I have been told that there are a number of very similar systems in the DPRK. Serving various collieries. Due to the the embargo and sanctions on the DPRK petroleum fuels are at a premium. However the country has plenty of coal. Whilst I have no details. I have been told that these trolleybus systems are very simple. Running from the mining villages up to the pit. I am also led to believe that they are as simple as possible with converted vehicles. Apparently both passenger and freight vehicles exist. But again I have no details.

[@szynszylaluminiowy1773]

It is sad, that the line is not working today. It's destroyed like many different great ideas from soviet times in all countries which was dependent from USSR

[@navaro20]

I love public transportation Here in US I miss this a lot

[@Trollebas1]

Думал будет про Доброполье, где частичка именно деревенского троллейбуса существовала.

[@user-rh6yh4py7o]

И фото на заглавной странице Доброполья

[@Linus7671DX]

Railways of the World: Soviet countries have countless cities with Trolleybuses. Latvia: Uh, he is wrong. Only Riga has trolleybuses in Latvia.

[@user-uv3bj5ek2m]

Bravo

[@eekee6034]

Hahaha "quiet, clean internal combustion engine"! :D

[@user-uh7nb2nv5d]

1.11 хорошо видно !

[@RantaHun]

in Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) there are underground trams that run like a subway. in Russia, everything is not as simple as it seems. )))

[@user-lb9if8it9x]

Офигеть история

[@walli1048]

Trolldrive, nice

[@bublic7]

Интересно

[@p_potatochips2950]

its funny cos in Moldova, these trolley buses are absolute life savers

[@msdos5915]

Хехе, приезжайте в Краснодар, у нас на маршрутах еще ходят троллейбусы этой модели.

[@intel386DX]

Very sad story :(

[@ruslan_inspired]

I live in MOLDOVA )))

[@Sashalexandros]

3:43 is from start from '00 years, it's fairly new. It's a comedic video, I know the guy on the right, he does sketches.

[@lrt_unimog8316]

Wouldn’t the Waltham X terminus be like this too, back in the day? Also, Rhondda….