From: "Gary R. Kazin" <gkazin_@_yahoo.com> Subject: (erielack) Strange Edison facts > Thomas Edison built laboratories and factories in West Orange. They were > served by the Erie Orange Branch. > > Westinghouse factories and offices were located on the Lackawanna at > Newark Broad Street and at Ampere on the Montclair Branch. > > It's strange that the Lackawanna used 3000 volt DC power and Edison > designs to electrify, rather than the on-line Westinghouse! And further to that, Gary, when the ERIE experimented with electrification on the Rochester Branch, the cars, which had been built for the Philadelphia & Western with GE equipment (motors, controllers) were rebuilt with Westinghouse gear before being put in service. Pertinent fact; Lewis B Stillwell, who we all think of as a railroad engineer, wasn't. He was an electrical engineer. In fact he was George Westinghouse's principal electrical engineer before he formed his own electrical engineering firm in New York. I think that's the key. SGL ------------------------------
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