[milwaukee-electric] Re: Another Before and After Photo Set

[Gary Schnabl]

On 6/19/2010 6:22 PM, Don L. Leistikow wrote:
> Ken:   Very Interesting....    Whereas, Streetcars could split a track
> switch, to have a Trackless Trolley split an overhead wire switch, is
> quite another matter.
>
> Why a uniformed Driver (of this coach?) is merely standing on the curb
> (for the photo?) is a mystery.  I can only guess what may have happened
> when a Supervisor came upon the scene.
>
> Barring any other circumstance, logic would suggest that the 'Driver'
> would grab the errant pole rope and swing it over to the inside Power
> wire, completing the circuit and thus, move on.
>
>
> Looks like a 350 series TT.....  Good Photos.
>
> Don L.
>    
After moving to Brookfield in 1956, my parents still hung onto their 
last two city lots--one with the farmhouse--of what was left of my 
grandparent's former 30 acres north of 42nd & Capitol. As an older 
teenager while attending Marquette U for three semesters, I would bach 
it over at the old house during much of that time.

My car had a mobile ham radio installed with an extra-long center-loaded 
whip antenna, whose top portion was a full-sized 10-meter-band whip (9 
feet or so). The trackless-trolley wires were still standing at that 
time, and the spring-based whip was tall enough to contact them. I 
always shot across Center Street or those trolley routes based out of 
Fiebrantz really fast, so as not having to contact those wires for any 
amount of time.

My question: Was my car or radio gear ever in any trouble as a result of 
momentarily contacting those overhead wires? I never experienced 
anything, as I recall. Or was I just lucky?

Gary


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Gary Schnabl
Southwest Detroit, two miles NORTH! of Canada--Windsor, that is...