[milwaukee-electric] Re: [milwaukee-electric) Power

[Don L. Leistikow]

Gary S and list:   Confusing and possibly amusing.                                                  

The City System, always used 600 volts, DC.  When the Interurban lines
were constructied to Waukesha and west, they employed 1200 volts, DC,
west of 84th street and beyond.  The Car Station at 84th and Lapham
streets generated and fed both voltages therefrom.                      

With the building of the East Troy and Burlington Lines, an experiment
was conducted using 3300 volts AC, 1907 - 1909, as I recall.  Those
lines reverted to 1200 DC and utimately changed over to a common 600
volts DC, throughout the entire System.                                          

Don L.