[PRCo] Re: feeder cables - Butler Street 1932

[Fred Schneider]

Somewhere I've seen a circuit drawing of all the substations and  
interconnections and I think Ed and I were both looking at it 20 or  
30 years ago.....    Without recourse to it, I don't know.   It might  
be logical, however, to have redundant capacity to feed other parts  
of the city by other routes in case one line went down (or had to be  
shut down) in a fire or accident.   It might have been a way to feed  
East Liberty or Etna through Butler Street.  Just thinking out  
loud.   Some day the map will surface and then I won't remember why I  
even want to know;  my brain will be back on screen saver.

On Nov 1, 2005, at 1:27 PM, 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?
> 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.
>
> 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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