[PRCo] Re: Nosing

[Boris Cefer]

Thank you :-)

B

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Schneider" <fschnei at supernet.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 2:55 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Nosing


> Great description Boris.
>
> Back in the late 40s or early 50s the New Haven Railroad bought a group of
Mack
> diesel buses on B2 trucks.  Dave Gaul (the last paid employee of Transit
> Research) told me they rode as smooth as glass on the railroad, and then
he
> added, "But in those days, anything would have given a smooth ride on New
Haven
> tracks."  The implication was that they still had first rate track
maintenance.
> I've seen track so bad that the springing on a B2 actually lifted the body
off
> the truck and slammed it back down with a thud ... the implication here is
of
> course that the restraining bolts on the king pin were not tightened.  It
> happened at several places on Baltimore Transit's Sparrows Point line in
1958,
> just a week or so before the line was abandoned and dismantled.  It should
be
> obvious that there was no maintenance being done to either the cars or the
track
> that was not absolutely necessary to get cars over the line.  There a
couple of
> low spots on the Baltimore Streetcar Museum track where I am uncomfortable
> running the PCC over 20 miles per hour because of the bouncing.