PCC Speed Demon!

[Fred W. Schneider III]

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.