Here's the Description of GMD'S SW1200MG from the following book photo No.1, Photo No. 2 is wikipedia's description of GMD'S SW1200MG. -Note the the Current Mistake.. see photo No.2- I tend to trust the info from books Like these see photo No.3, more than wikipedia's! Tom
I recently read that the first electric street cars in America were in Appleton, Wisconsin. I this true? We used to have a lot more of them before my time.
Appleton certainly had some of the earliest electric cars. In addition, Appleton had the Onieda street hydroelectric station as one of the first hydro stations in the world. Richmond Va is usually recognized as the first successful electric railway using the Sprague system. Appleton was experimenting with the Van Deople system for a bit prior to Frank J Sprague so in a way Appleton did have the first although it was not ready for prime time.
Speaking of the SW1200MG, Look what I found ! > Fiche8299f.doc , hopefully someone here is able to translate this PDF from French to ENGLISH . Tom
That's really neat Russell. If my math is right (and it often isn't), average speed of 33 MPH over 50 miles of line including stops is impressive.
The old GHE ROW is under IH 45 from Downtown Houston out to about Winkler... there are several residential sections where the street grid lines up with the freeway, these are old interurban neighborhoods or what is now called "transit oriented development." Down at Park Place they had the interurban stop inside of a traffic circle... now the freeway runs through it.
I've heard that the right of way was actually a little further east, where some power line run, but I have no way of knowing for sure. I grew up a couple blocks from the Gulf Freeway inside the loop, and I remember one time walking home from school and talking to a lady who said that she remembered when the interurban was still running.
Well, this will be hard to see... I've snipped a little piece of the Western New York map that jtomstarr shared... The line running from Rochester northeasterly to Glen Haven and then curling around the bay to the east is of particular interest to me. It's the Rochester and Sodus Bay interurban line. Its presence on the map dates it to no later than June 1929. I recently posted an short installment about this on my Irwin's Journal Online site: https://www.irwinsjournal.com/ijonline/ijpath.htm
