Double trolley wire (was: Johnstown PCC Scans & a Pittsburgh Fantasy

[Kenneth and Tracie Josephson]

Don Galt wrote:
> 
> >> Cincinnati was a bit weird anyway.  They didn't know how many wires to
> stick overhead and while they got the correct number of trolley poles on
> the cars (2), they stuck them both at one end! <<
> 
> This is wandering way outside Pennsylvania, of course. Go ahead, slap me.
> 
> In addition to well-known Havana, I know of at least one other system to
> employ double overhead. The Seattle Municipal Street Railway, which started
> out with one new line and one gift line which it rehabilitated, in the days
> when the main network was still in the hands of Stone & Webster, used
> double wires for its "A" division. This configuration lasted only for a few
> years and didn't survive past the city's purchase of the Seattle Electric
> (S&W) system.

Merrill, Wisconsin used dual overhead and even ran a primitive trolley
coach for a route extension. Ken J.