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- From: res@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (Rich Strebendt)
- Newsgroups: chi.general
- Subject: Re: ILLINOIS PRAIRIE PATH NEWS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan20.232531.14337@cbnewsc.cb.att.com>
- Date: 20 Jan 93 23:25:31 GMT
- References: <1993Jan18.145258.26932@sdc.com> <1993Jan19.204406.17895@i88.isc.com>
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- In article <1993Jan19.204406.17895@i88.isc.com>, jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan19.144722.9799@sdc.com> kenk@sdc.com (Ken Konecki) writes:
- > >... Granted it may not be fair to erect high
- > >tension wires after a neighborhood has been established, but on the other
- > >hand it wasn't any secret that the Prarie Path was a ComEd right of way
- > >(acquired solely for the purpose for which ComEd now wants to use it)
- > >if anyone had cared to look. Caveat Emptor.
- >
- > And, prior to being the Prairie Path, it was a commuter railroad, which
- > greatly lessened the need for a car in DuPage County.
- >
- > Come to think of it, it was an electric railroad, so there were already
- > power lines there...
-
- Not necessarily true! I do not have my collection of slides from the
- days of the CA&E here in my office to check on this, but it is quite
- possible that third rail power supply was used (as is done today on
- the CTA). Even if there was overhead wire, though, the voltage on
- that would have been in the 200-600vac range, not in the multi-kilovolt
- range.
-
- Rich Strebendt
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- r.strebendt@att.com
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