More Two Wire Trivia or "How to Draw a Streetcar"

[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.

I had the T.V. on last night while I was sorting some of my Roberta Hill
pix ("Carbarn Sally" sure had a thing for Routes 53, 71, 73, 76, 82 &
85!) The new animated "Batman" cartoon series was on. I heard, "Runaway
Trolley!" from the boob tube and I snapped to attention and watched. 

Apparently, Gotham City has a twin wire trolley system using Atlantic
City style Brilliners. These cars have dual trolley poles mounted
between the front end of the car and the front truck. They use San Diego
style Siemens controls. :-) I have yet to see an animator properly
illustrate a streetcar system. Come to think of it, Fleischer Studios
did manage to get it right a few times in the late 1930's. :-) Ken J.