[milwaukee-electric] Re: Extra Wires

[William Sell]

Gary
Could those taller buildings way on the horizon have been either 
Deaconess or Children's Hospitals?
B


At 08:35 PM 11/21/2010, Gary Schnabl wrote:
>On 11/21/2010 4:12 AM, Ken and Tracie wrote:
> > I believe this is South 16th Street, looking northbound towards 
> the viaduct.
> > If you study the trackless trolley overhead, you will notice, on the east
> > side of the street, two smaller gauge wires, suspended from the span wires,
> > between the streetlight pole and the strain insulator. I wonder what they
> > are?
> > The feeder cables are strung from insulators mounted to the poles by hook
> > shaped bracket pins and the streetlights are the type feed by underground
> > circuits. I remember Milwaukee using above ground streetlighting circuits,
> > but those were usually used with wooden pole construction, and 
> almost always
> > were accompanied by small transformers at each light.  Besides, I 
> do not see
> > the wires feeding the streetlight on the right.
> >
> > I am wondering if this might be a circuit tied in with the 
> contact wires, to
> > trip the traffic signals at National Avenue. I know the 60th&  Vliet Street
> > loop had some sort of contact on the trackless trolley overhead. 
> Not sure if
> > that was for traffic signal control or a dispatching communication device.
> > Pittsburgh's 42/38 streetcar line had trolley pole activated 
> traffic signals
> > at both the Mount Lebanon loop and the also where the car line left
> > Washington Road for private right of way prior to the line being 
> placed into
> > a subway under Washington Road.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > K
>If that were 16th Street facing north, what would those taller buildings
>west of 16th Street north of the valley be? Were there any such
>buildings west of Marquette University? Might that have been facing
>south instead, by Clyborn or whatever other street that was north of the
>valley?
>
>I do not believe it could have been 27th Street facing south because my
>father had a general-contractor drinking buddy (Art Baer) who (I though)
>had his place of business on the NW corner of the street north of 27th
>Street where that metal coating building would be if it were on 27th.
>
>
>--
>
>Gary Schnabl
>Southwest Detroit, two miles NORTH! of Canada--Windsor, that is...


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