History
In the years before the First World War, the electric trolley, spitting blue sparks, saw its heyday in Vermont, also its decline. The little four-wheel “bobbers” and the big eight-wheel, two-trucked interurbans carried 10 million passengers a year.
For more background on this episode, visit: https://vermonthistory.org/age-of-trolleys-1901
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