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Decker was also hired by Prof. Thaddeus Lowe of the Mount Lowe Railway which opened in Altadena, California in 1893. Decker was responsible for the daily supervision of the electrical installations on the railway, and had also computed the electrical requirements for the Great Incline operating system, even considering a series of rechargeable batteries since there was such a lack of resources for hydroelectric generation. Decker suffered from Tuberculosis which left him so weak that he was ferried out to the work sites in a wheelbarrow daily to oversee the installations. He died a little more than a month after the railroad opened and is buried at Sierra Madre Pioneer Cemetery in Sierra Madre, California. Many of Decker's theories of electrical methodology were underestimated during his life, and it wasn't until after his death that his theories were put to test and proved applicable. EXTERNAL LINKS
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