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<DIV><FONT size=4>Fred</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>To what ride do you refer?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>I can’t find anything relating to a ride in a Jones car in the
antecedents. Sounds like a story worth knowing about. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>At the end of Jones cars, or approaching the end, were not the
ten DE cars that were retained all equipped with the rewound, “high speed”
motors and controls?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Dwight</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=fwschneider@comcast.net
href="mailto:fwschneider@comcast.net">Fred Schneider</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, 10 April, 2014 11:04</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org
href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org">Western PA Trolley
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [PRCo] Skybus piece from Post
Gazette</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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of all, I do not remember if the car was a 3700 or a 5400. It was
obviously a high speed because there were no low speeds left by that time except
double-end cars. A 3700 had lower ratio gearing so it would
achieve higher speeds but would take longer to get there. A standard
high speed low floor city car might be good for about 37 mph while a 3750 might
do 45 or so. <BR><BR>The interurbans beyond Drake and Library were
quite slow when I rode them in March 30 and 31, 1953. One Charleroi
motorman explained that once the company decided to give up, they also quit
maintaining the tracks. But even north of Drake and Library, I
don't remember it as being good before the LRV era. <BR><BR>Now go down to
Dallas and ride DART. They have some 60 mph operation.
It's hard to fathom a single light rail line that is 50 miles long but that is
what the Red Line is from Plano to Dallas to DFW Airport. It is
their version of the Paoli local. <BR><BR><BR>On Apr 10, 2014, at 10:06 AM, John
Swindler wrote:<BR><BR>> <BR>> <BR>> The recollection is a somewhat
bumpy, slow ride. But perceptions can be deceiving. Speed might have
been as fast as the PCC cars attempting to negotiate PAT's abysmal trackwork
from that era. <BR>> <BR>> Which brings back a memory of last day of
Drake around 1999 - PCC operator was running 'pedal to the metal' - and
kept thinking that this was amazing - something never experienced 25-30 years
earlier from the Skybus era. <BR>> <BR>>
<BR>>> From: alto_trombone@hotmail.com<BR>>> To:
pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org<BR>>> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014
06:01:38 -0400<BR>>> Subject: Re: [PRCo] Skybus piece from Post
Gazette<BR>>> <BR>>> I rode it. Who else?<BR>>> <BR>>>
Dennis F. Cramer <BR>>> http://home.windstream.net/dfc1/<BR>>>
<BR>>>> From: fwschneider@comcast.net<BR>>>> Date: Wed, 9 Apr
2014 12:59:35 -0400<BR>>>> To:
pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org<BR>>>> Subject: [PRCo] Skybus
piece from Post Gazette<BR>>>> <BR>>>> <BR>>>> Found
by one of Bombardier's (nee Westinghouse) employees and forwarded to me by Dave
Hamley. Thanks Dave.<BR>>>> <BR>>>>
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