[PRCo] Re: feeder cables -Cleveland Comparison

[hrbran99 at adelphia.net]

I do have the circuit drawings for Cleveland Railway/Cleveland Transit System. Here, CRC/CTS did run feeder lines on many streets without car tracks. This was done to insure all parts of the streetcar/trackless trolley system had a continuous supply of power even if other feeder lines were down or were cut do to ice, fire, etc.  In fact, many of the old steel and cement line poles are still standing, complete with crossarms and insulators and in a few cases with span wires. So,  PRCo probably did the same.
HrB
 
---- Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote: 
> 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.