[PRCo] Re: M11 accelerator

Jim Holland PghPCC at pacbell.net
Tue Mar 30 15:37:09 EST 2004


Boris Cefer wrote:

>Now we know at least that the thing in the box carried
>starting/brake/spotting current.
>Do you definitely definitely remember the heat? It's not easy to cool the
>resistor ribbons in such a box, but it could work. But then it would mean
>there wasn't any accelerator under the floor.
>
Since heat rises it is still possible that there was a lower drum.     
Yes!     DEFINITELY  remember the heat  --  Cold Day but all the heat 
coming from the drum was wayyyy toooo muchhhh!

>M11 spent some time also at Craft, but I don't know when (late 50s???) and
>the reason.
>
What's your source for this info?     Very possible  --  why was 1613 
taken from Craft to become an interurban?     Why Not Homewood?\

>B
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Jim

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