Waterloo, WI (March 2013)
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as of Aug 2018
Waterloo is a small place about 25 miles NE from Madison, WI, north of I-94. It is home to the only remaining installation we know, of large linear fluorescent fixtures used for roadway lighting. These are Westinghouse fixtures, and are in very good condition.
The town apparently loves these fixtures, and is trying to keep them going for as long as possible.
In this closeup you can see 4 tubes. Most of the fixtures however have only 2 tubes.
These pictures were taken at dusk, we were waiting for them to come on.
A closeup of one of the overhead wired poles- not all of them are wired this way. You can see what is a medium based socket with a screw in fuse, the other wire from it is heading up to the fixture.
Dusk, and they all came on at once, they don't have photocells and are group switched from somewhere.
A closeup of one of the 2 tube fixtures- most of them are this way.
Here's one of them with all 4 tubes fitted- I think there were only 2 like this.
RemovedChecked on "as of" date (either in person or via latest GSV available), removal happened as late as that date or before
as of Aug 2018
Just round the back of one of the buildings at the intersection of N Monroe and E Madison (the centre of town) there is this fixture lighting the parking lot. An old Westinghouse book reveals this to be a "Mainstreeter" 2HUS-72 fixture, for two 6 foot tubes.
It is a different design with an open reflector. We didn't find out if it was part of the municipal system or privately owned.
Update Mar 2019:
This Westinghouse "Mainstreeter" fixture would have originally had a prismatic diffuser fitted, and is probably a city owned fixture.
A final look at this fixture, now identified as a Westinghouse "Mainstreeter".
RemovedChecked on "as of" date (either in person or via latest GSV available), removal happened as late as that date or before
as of Aug 2018
Another shot of the open fixture lighting the parking lot at the intersection of S Monroe and Taylor St (mentioned 3 or 4 pictures back). An interesting fact came to light whilst looking at old GSV images of this area. It turns out that in front of the building with the white garage door (behind the tree to the right of the pic) there was another Westinghouse "Mainstreeter" on a pole similar to the one in roughly centre of the pic. Sometime between 2007 and 2013, seemingly as part of a streetscaping project, that pole was replaced with one of the davit arm/Westinghouse combinations seen in the rest of town, in a different position, not using the location of the old pole which was nearer that building. The replacement pole and arm can be seen behind the tree, at the lefthand side of the white door building. Interesting is the fact that, during the same streetscaping project, the city installed modern post top fixtures on N Monroe but seemingly used one of the fixtures it removed, at this location.