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A Not-Too-Commonly-Used Light Here Here's a 100W HPS GE M-250R2 FCO. Well, these were very commonly used by Blackstone Valley Electric in the early 90s but this is a late 80s Narragansett Electric installation. Just like my 1985 70W M-250R2 FCO but this one doesn't have a metallic NEMA tag. It has a non-metallic dark yellow NEMA tag. Around 1990 GE switched to a lighter yellow color for the HPS NEMA tags. These FCO M-250R2s were used here between 1987 and 1989 judging by the NEMA tag and fixture design. By the end of 1989 they were using drop lens versions for 100W HPS. The 250W HPS ones were always drop lens in NECo territory here, and the one 70W one I've seen is drop lens as well. Keywords: American_Streetlights

A Not-Too-Commonly-Used Light Here

Here's a 100W HPS GE M-250R2 FCO. Well, these were very commonly used by Blackstone Valley Electric in the early 90s but this is a late 80s Narragansett Electric installation. Just like my 1985 70W M-250R2 FCO but this one doesn't have a metallic NEMA tag. It has a non-metallic dark yellow NEMA tag. Around 1990 GE switched to a lighter yellow color for the HPS NEMA tags.

These FCO M-250R2s were used here between 1987 and 1989 judging by the NEMA tag and fixture design. By the end of 1989 they were using drop lens versions for 100W HPS. The 250W HPS ones were always drop lens in NECo territory here, and the one 70W one I've seen is drop lens as well.

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Model25FanForever   [Aug 19, 2015 at 04:14 PM]
GE M250R2s arent really common here. I know of a few FCO M250 R2s on the highways here. I know we used to have quite a few in the middle of the city. Now they are just in subdivisions where shoeboxs have been replaced around 2003- 2007. I wish we used more GE fixtures here..
streetlight98   [Aug 19, 2015 at 08:27 PM]
Yeah I noticed GEs are pretty rare in Southern Ontario. I had vacationed in Blue Mountain, Ontario last year right near Lake Huron (so beautiful up there and people were so kind!) and there were quite a few GEs in use! These black M-250R2 FCOs on black poles in some of the fancy cookie cutter neighborhoods and more here at this rotary.

A Sylvania/Powerlite ballast-in-arm light too. I think it might've been MV too! There were a few lights there that were MV.

There was also a beautiful B2227 with a remote PC on top of the mountain. This was the ONLY street light I saw on the mountain. It's probably MV too!
Model25FanForever   [Aug 20, 2015 at 11:58 PM]
Theres some green ones in downtown toronto. Not FCO though.

Oooh nice catch on both those oldies! I have yet to see one of the B2227s in person. Sad Yet im from Ontario. Isnt that light In your streetview a R37? I bet it is a MV light, most up there are still MV, although they are starting to become victims of the LEDs.
joe_347V   [Aug 22, 2015 at 05:37 AM]
I know of some FCO ones on Bayview near Highway 7. Half of them got wiped out by LED but the other half is still there as the neighboring town is still using HPS. As for drop lens ones, Keswick had a ton of them on upsweep arms which always reminds me of the streetlights in your area Mike Razz. I'm not sure if LED managed to wipe thme out though.

Interesting Streetview pics too.

I think this was the only MV B2227 I've seen. I'm not actually sure if these are still up as I heard Newmarket is converting to LED. I have heard that a collector in the area saved them though.
streetlight98   [Aug 22, 2015 at 02:33 PM]
The B2227 and R37 are the same model, right? just the R37s are newer? I don't really know if it's MV or HPS but I assume MV since it's got a remote PC.

Yes those do look a lot like the lighting set-ups here! Smile They look like the old 50s and early 60s underbraced upsweep arms used here, minus the underbrace.

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