[PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh B-3 Trucks, changed to PCC speed

[boris6 at volny.cz]

It's off topic again, but 1053 is (was?????) St. Louis Car built.
I cannot imagine a PCC running at 60 mph (96 km/h) on tangent
level track. Maybe on downgrade, yes. It might bring damaging
results for traction motor armatures. Balancing speed is about 42
mph or 68 km/h, safe speed (regarding motor armatures)is 50 mph.

Boris


Od: rogertrolley.1 at juno.com

OFF topic here,
> somebody posted the Washington DC area trolley museum
> fire photos and referred to the DC Transit car #1053
> as an experimental car. I r!
> ode that car in DC and I believe it was a Brilliner
> product that actually was a competitor to the PCC's
> and I believe they had more than one but cannot find
> any info in my library on DC Transit. A book was put
> out on that system. It may have been a St.Louis Liner
> but again my memory is fuzzy on exactly who made them.
> Atlantic City had the largest fleet of Brilliners and
> Phila had 3 or 4 cars. Of course Phila.Suburban had
> the last ten cars produced by Brill but were dbl
> enders. Scranton has one at Electric City Trolley
> Museum.

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