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- From: mikebo@timesink.chi.il.us (Michael Borowiec)
- Newsgroups: chi.general
- Subject: Re: ILLINOIS PRAIRIE PATH NEWS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.075616.12948@timesink.chi.il.us>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 07:56:16 GMT
- References: <1993Jan18.145258.26932@sdc.com> <1993Jan19.204406.17895@i88.isc.com> <1993Jan20.232531.14337@cbnewsc.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1993Jan20.232531.14337@cbnewsc.cb.att.com> res@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (Rich Strebendt) writes:
- >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:
- ... stuff deleted ...
- >>
- >> 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.
- >
- It was a third-rail system that ran parallel to the Chicago Great
- Western railroad. I grew up two blocks from it and, being a railroad
- enthusiast, hunted for and found an old section of CA&E track behind
- what used to be Sun Electric Corporation at Madison and 31st in
- Bellwood. This was in the mid 70's... It's all gone now...
- - Mike
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