[PRCo] Re: Interurban PCCs ???

[James B. Holland]

Have No Way Of Knowing!!!

Sunset tunnel not quite as long but downgrade is a little steeper.       
Used to get Baby Tens on Sat and Sun and schedule Very Tight.       Had 
it on the floor  ALL  the way down the tunnel and moved foot to brake 
only upon absolute necessity so car was Easily Traveling over 40-mph!

Overhead in Twin Peaks was complicated because a separate wire was used 
for pans and trolleypoles  --  too much risk of real problems if a pole 
dewired in here but still had the cars up to a very good speed  --  
probably over 40 on occasion but tried to keep it lower than that.


Jim



Boris Cefer wrote:

> What was the speed when you released the power pedal?
>
> B
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James B. Holland" <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 4:53 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Interurban PCCs ???
>
>> San Francisco didn't have cut-off governors on the PCCs -- We could 
>> really get them rolling inbound downhill in Twin Peaks Tunnel where 
>> we easily had over a 1-mile run -- as long as the power pedal was 
>> depressed that car had power -- strong brake spotting when the power 
>> released!!
>>
>> Jim
>