[milwaukee-electric] Re: Harrison Street station NSL

[Don Ross]

I don't think that North Shore had anything other than 600.  TM 
started with 600 and then tried 3300AC on the original 1100s.  The 
changed at St Martins and Waukesha Beach.  That was changed in short 
time to 1200 and that seems to be the change at St Martins and 
Waukesha Beach.  The rebuilt 1100s in the 1920s were 600.  All that 
kind of stuff was before I was in town.  All I can remember is 
600.  Maybe the other Don can answer since he is older than me.  Hee hee.


At 12:28 AM 3/20/2011, you wrote:
>The two voltages were separated by a "dead zone in the wire; there 
>was a manually-thrown changeover switch under each interurban car, 
>operated by a lever and linkage.
>--- On Sat, 3/19/11, Don Ross <don0731 at gte.net> wrote:
>
>From: Don Ross <don0731 at gte.net>
>Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Re: Harrison Street station NSL
>To: milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org
>Date: Saturday, March 19, 2011, 11:22 PM
>
>All on 600V.  No 1200 on the North Shore.  The TM had 1200 for a
>short time but they gave up the 1200 also.  South Shore is 1200.  No
>problem in crossing between TM, North Shore, and South Shore.  No crossings.
>I don't know how the TM did the switch when they still had 1200.  I
>think they just ran slow when they ran on 600 wire.
>Don (the younger)
>
>At 11:03 PM 3/19/2011, you wrote:
> >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