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From: essachs@ihuxl.UUCP (Ed Sachs)
Newsgroups: net.railroad
Subject: Re: Forwarding: Re: Signaling on the NY
Message-ID: <1677@ihuxl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Jan-86 13:06:39 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  8 13:06:39 1986
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> 
> Speaking of rapid transit, is Chicago's the only one to use both third rail
> and overhead wire for power?  I can't think of any.
> 

Chicago is almost entirely third rail now.  Only the outer portion
of the Skokie Swift route uses and overhead (caternary with pantographs,
not a trolley pole), the rest of the lines which had used trolley wire
were converted to third rail in the 60's and early 70's.
-- 
				Ed Sachs
				AT&T Bell Laboratories
				Naperville, IL
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