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PCC 1516 on Route 42, at Union Station, looking west, operating on conduit plow trackage.
All track within the inner city was powered by conduit in the street to avoid unslighly overhead wires.
Interestingly, a similar third rail system recently opened in Bordeaux, France using a high-tech third rail in the center of the two running rails.
The cars are controlled by a system which allows the third rail sections to only be energized under the light rail vehicle as its passes.
The track before and after is electrically dead until the LRV uses the next section or leaves the one behind it.
Caption data from John Shriver; photo courtesy the Ed Havens collection
