[PRCo] Re: B-3 and Tatra PCC

robert netzlof wb3iqe at rocketmail.com
Fri Sep 26 16:28:18 EDT 2003


--- Pepa Kalousek <boris6 at volny.cz> wrote:
> ... I need some
> material for comparison of the St. Louis and Tatra product, but
> cannot find on the web any good pictures of the original American
> B-3 in Pittsburgh fulfilment - with Westinghouse equipment and D-1
> resilient wheels. I know that Tatra received some TRC drawings of
> the wide gauge (5' 2 1/2" = Pittsburgh) B-3 in 1948, but these are
> long gone. I look chiefly for some close ups of Westinghouse
> traction motors, drum brakes and actuators.

Would these trucks be the same as those on the Philadelphia cars
beingrebuilt (or not) at Brookville?


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Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob


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