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Was the field shunt connected?  A PCC ought to be able to go 42 mph on 600 v
on level track.  I have a hazy recollection that SEPTA disabled the field
shunts on cars that ran only in the street.   That would allow just about 25
mph which ought to be just right for a museum line anyway.

Bill V. (Supt.Equipt., retired, and former member, Ohio Railway Museum,
Worthington, Ohio, IT 450 team, on which I bought the low voltage batteries
and hooked them up and wire brushed all the seat frames.)

-----Original Message-----
From: Fred W. Schneider III [mailto:fschnei@supernet.com]
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 7:29 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways@dementia.org; billvigrass@aol.com
Subject: PCC Speed Demon!


Remember our discussions about how fast PCC cars run?  The 90 mile an
hour car on Ardmore Boulevard?

I had my first chance this morning to run former PTC 2711 at the
Pennsylvania Trolley Museum.  It very conveniently has a speedometer,
which was installed by SEPTA during the GOH program.  Floorboarded out
of the Arden loop ... downhill ... by Yanovich stop (maybe three city
blocks) we had less than 25 miles per hour.  Admittedly, there is no
feeder cable up there and we were a mile from the substation.   As the
speedometer wrong?  I doubt it.  It was taking about 3.5 seconds between
line poles about 50 feet apart.  My witness was Greg Walz.


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