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Re: Color photo of North Shore Milwaukee Limited at Great Lakes IL station, March 1962 |
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Posted by Asgard on Sat May 21 21:05:00 2016, in response to Re: Color photo of North Shore Milwaukee Limited at Great Lakes IL station, March 1962, posted by randyo on Sat May 21 14:54:52 2016. A quick look through Middleton's "The Interurban Era" and Hilton & Due's "The Electric Interurban in America" shows that the majority of interurbans had their headlights mounted low.I've never heard the reason for it, but it might be that due to street running, they'd want the headlights mounted more or less where a streetcar headlight would be. In addition, a roof-mounted light might interfere with the movement of the trolley retriever rope. Arguing against this, though, is the use of low, door-mounted headlights on pantograph cars, like the Key System; and also the presence of roof-mounted destination signs on Pacific Electric cars, which would seem to present the same problem for the retriever rope. The North Shore, and many other lines, didn't always install the portable headlights on daytime runs; odd especially for a line like the North Shore which was concerned about grade crossing accidents. And a final note about North Shore headlights: I remember when the line was abandoned reading in the paper that passengers used to hope to see a dim headlight as the train approached, because that meant the interior lights would be bright enough to read by. |
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