[milwaukee-electric] Re: Harrison Street station NSL

[Gary Schnabl]

Concerning the rotary converters... Assuming that streetcars ran on 600V 
and the interurbans ran on, say, 1200V, how did the two types of coaches 
coexist on 1200V lines? Did the streetcars use a dropping resistor on 
1200V lines, or did the interurbans run, albeit slower, on 600V for the 
1/2 mile of trackage leading to/from the PSB to Hibernia. Seeing that 
human operators were usually employed to synchronize the converters at 
substations, did the interurbans ever convert to unmanned mercury-vapor 
rectifier setups at their substations?

On 3/19/2011 11:05 PM, Don Ross wrote:
> I thought I had explained the area.  Harrison Street was the end of
> the street.  North of the area was residential.  Then we had private
> trackage from South.  On the East Side of the main line was the
> rotary convertor, shops, storage tracks, and the truck trailler
> tracks.  West of the main line was the station.  It was a 2 story
> building on the south end of the building and on the north side was
> the MD depot.  Besides the track than along the station, a second
> track served as a unloading area.
> The station itself was also used as a waiting room.  I don't remember
> if there was an agent there or if they just used collectors on the cars.
> Don

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

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