The last streetcar line in Dayton, City Railway's route 1-Third Street, was converted to trolley buses on September 28, 1947.
Electric streetcar service in Dayton had started in 1888, and it continued through to, and indeed beyond, the start of trolley bus service. The first electric trolley bus (ETB) service in Ohio began operation in Dayton, on April 23, 1933, when the Salem Avenue-Lorain Avenue line was converted from streetcars to trolley coaches - or trolley buses, as they are most commonly known today.
For both of these reasons, the city's trolley buses are locally considered an icon of Dayton. city still operating a trolley bus system. By the 1970s, Dayton was already the smallest U.S. One of only five such systems currently operating in the U.S., and the only one in a city without a subway, light rail, or streetcar system, the Dayton trolley bus system is the current manifestation of an electric transit service that has been operated continuously in Dayton since 1888 - longer than in any other city in the United States. Opened on April 23, 1933, it presently comprises five lines, and is operated by the Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority, with a fleet of 45 trolleybuses. The Dayton trolleybus system forms part of the public transportation network serving Dayton, in the state of Ohio, United States. A trolleybus of the Oakwood Street Railway, one of multiple companies that once operated trolleybuses in Dayton, passing the Montgomery County Courthouse in 1937