Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Another job you wouldn't want to do, Trolley car wire maintenance

Downtown Toronto, at Yonge and Queen St. workers of the newly-formed Toronto Transit Commission rebuild the intersection. The passing streetcar would indicate the power is not down. The foreman, dead center in a suit oversees the work. 
Meanwhile free enterprise is alive and well in the electrical utilities business. Each electric company erected and maintained its own system leading to forests of electrical poles and wires down each street,

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