[PRCo] Re: Interurban PCCs ???

[Boris Cefer]

That I don't know. I don't have GE instruction book for 1700s and the GE
book for 1600s does not contain any field shunt resistors and coils
resistance data.
The rest of GE cars used common 50 % field shunting (according the field
shunt and motor resistance values).

And there is nothing concerning the air brake equipment, so I don't know the
way how the air was allowed to fill the brake cylinders. The wiring diagrams
contain only LO circuits, but that is only small part of the brake control.

B

----- Original Message -----
From: "James B. Holland" <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 9:16 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Interurban PCCs ???


> So 1775--1799 were Not wired for higher speeds?
>
> Jim
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> Boris Cefer wrote:
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> > It would be interesting to know what electric equipment manufacturer
> > was intended for 1775-1799 as interurbans. GE??????
> >
> > If the 1600s were not intended for interurban purposes, why were they
> > (and Westinghouse 1700s) equipped for higher speeds?
> >
> >
> > From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams at adelphia.net>
> >
> >> No. There had been experimental trucks on the property for several
> >> years, but no cars were actually ordered for interurban service until
> >> the 1700s.       1775-1799 were originally to have been the
> >> interurbans; this was changed at some point to the lower numbers. The
> >> 1600s, except for 1613-14, were retrofitted about the time the 1700s
> >> came. We have that construction order somewhere, along with those for
> >> the car orders.
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Boris Cefer wrote:
> >>
> >> Several wiring diagrams say that PCCs 1601 to 1617 (and possibly also
> >> the Queen Mary) were capable of higher balancing speed than all
> >> previous series.
> >
> >> Cars 1618 to 1674 arrived with standard field shunting and were
> >> rewired later, in 1947.
> >> Does exist any evidence that PRCo ordered the first 17 1600 series
> >> cars for interurban service?
> >
> >> B
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>
> --
> Jim__Holland
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>
> I__Like__Ike.......And__PCCs!!
>
> down with pantographs ---- UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!!!!!
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