[PRCo] Southern Cambria

[D Brashear]

https://books.google.com/books?id=rgg0AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA1285&ots=eXX639jOHc&dq=%221200%20volts%22%20%22southern%20cambria%22&pg=PA1285#v=onepage&q=%221200%20volts%22%20%22southern%20cambria%22&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=PXwhAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA582&ots=FL2u3hj7MB&dq=%221200%20volts%22%20%22southern%20cambria%22&pg=PA582#v=onepage&q=%221200%20volts%22%20%22southern%20cambria%22&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=dz9FAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA419&ots=1wwR5spHt2&dq=%221200%20volts%22%20%22southern%20cambria%22&pg=PA419#v=onepage&q=%221200%20volts%22%20%22southern%20cambria%22&f=false


On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 6:29 AM, DF Cramer via Pittsburgh-railways <
pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org> wrote:

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> A friend is doing some research on the Southern Cambria and asked me to do
> some editing on his work. Some of his ancestors were involved in the August
> 1916 wreck.Rohrbeck states the Niles interurban cars used 600 volts in
> Johnstown & Ebensburg, but 1200 out on the line. Can anyone substantiate
> that?
> My friends source for the voltage issue in Johnstown came from the Sept.
> 3rd issue of
> Electric Railway Journal. Also, Corbis Images has stock photography on line
> titled "Southern Cambria Railway Tracks Through Johnstown" which appears
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> the overhead intersection with the electrical box on a wooden pole. It
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> surprise me if at some point the voltage was lowered to 600 volts.
> Probably a
> relatively simple conversion. Does anyone know of any quality images,
> other than what Rohrbeck has, of the wreck of August 1916? Thanks
> Dennis F. Cramer
> http://home.windstream.net/dfc1/
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