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Re: Covered/uncovered third rail |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri May 1 01:27:25 2009, in response to Covered/uncovered third rail, posted by gbs on Fri May 1 01:22:31 2009. I'm assuimg that you're familiar with the current "subway style" third rail shoes ... the earlier el cars, as well as CTA use the "elevated style" third rail shoes which are "gravity-based" ... what you're familiar with came later ... the "El type" third rails were closer to the running rails and lower than the current type third rail. The El shoes looked like this:
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