[PRCo] Re: B-3 and Tatra PCC

Pepa Kalousek boris6 at volny.cz
Fri Sep 26 17:06:45 EDT 2003


No, new Brookville trucks have Czech brake actuators developed from WAB
SE-2, and may be Czech track brakes too.

Boris
----- Original Message -----
From: robert netzlof <wb3iqe at rocketmail.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 10:28 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: B-3 and Tatra PCC


> --- 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?
>
>
> =====
> Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob
>
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