[PRCo] Re: Amother alternate use for trolley power

[ROBERT R ROCKWELL]

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  From: robert simpson<mailto:bobs at pacbell.net> 
  To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org<mailto:pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org> 
  >  The first X-Ray machine in the Pittsburgh area was installed in >Shadyside Hospital on Centre Avenue in the early 1900's - in an era >when electricity was not yet common in the home or in the hospital.  >How they overcame this shortcoming was to run an electrical cable from >Pgh. Railway line on Centre Avenue into the hospital.  This Direct 

  My Daddy wired the first lighting in Shadygrove Park (Uniontown) using series bulbs across West Penn Streetcar Line power.  And I shudder at the thought of a motor speed controller he built for one of the rides using two copper rods raised and lowered in a barrel of water @600V. But, he lived to be 88.

  Robert Rockwell
  w3syt1 at msn.com<mailto:w3syt1 at msn.com>