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

[EDWARD H. LYBARGER]

West Penn's Allegheny Valley Street Railway used double wire overhead, too.
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> 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.
>