[PRCo] Re: feeder cables - Butler Street 1932

[Matt Barry]

One possibility occurred to me about the large amount of feeder cables 
in the 1932 photo:   maybe they were routed across the 40th street 
bridge to the Millvale Car House?
Matt Barry wrote:

> Check out all the feeder cables alongside Butler Street in 
> Lawrenceville, between 39th and 40th streets, 1932.
> Only lines 95 Butler Street (ruch hour) and 94 Aspinwall ran here.   
> Plummer Street Car house was about 7 or 8 blocks up from this point.
> Any idea why so many wires?
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> The second photo shows Butler Street in 1960 with one bracket of 
> feeder cables alongside the route.  This is five blocks up and 28 
> years from the 1932 photo.
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> Incidentally, those brackets have only recently started to come down 
> on Butler Street.   They remained in place for years, without the 
> railways' cables, of course, but in some spots, they were made use of 
> by a thinner wire; I was never sure if it was a telephone wire or 
> electric.   I don't think it was cable TV.
>
> Matt   
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