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echo: railroad
to: REGGIE ARFORD
from: WES LEATHEROCK
date: 1997-05-12 07:58:00
subject: Confessions of a young

 -=> Quoting Reggie Arford to Wes Leatherock <=-
 WL>         I remember photos of the North Shore Electroliners
 WL>in their original configuration with trolley poles.  Something
 WL>like 100 mph service.  Probably the rescued one at the Illinois
 WL>museum still has trolley poles.
 RA> If I recall correctly, the "Railways to Yesterday" trolley museum
 RA> at Orbisonia, PA has an Electroliner (5 segment articulated super-
 RA> interurban). This came equipped for 3rd-rail power, and had to be
 RA> modified by adding 4 trolley poles (2 for each direction; this car
 RA> has a VERY healty appetite!) to be run at the museum.
        The Electroliners as built and as they ran on the North
Shore (Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad) were equipped
with both trolley poles and 3rd rail shoes.
        They traveled around the Loop on the Chicago El on 3rd
rail shoes, then shifted to trolley poles when they reached their
own (North Shore) trackage.
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