PCC Speed Demon!

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Greetings

As I remember, PCC cars when built were supposed to have a "balancing" speed
of 44 MPH.
What does "balancing" speed mean?  Harold Geissenheimer

"Fred W. Schneider III" wrote:

> 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.