[PRCo] Re: TrolleyCar___Speed

[Holland Electric Rwy. Op. H.E.R.O. -- Import SPTC 1.48 Models // James B. Holland]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: James B. Holland"
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>> Some of the comments are from People Within The Transit Profession, 
>> but even then these people suffer from the same that the rest of us 
>> suffer -- humanity and the tendency to remember conditions the way we 
>> want to remember them!! Some comments need to be taken with a grain 
>> of salt and compared to facts // statistics elsewhere for validation!!!
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>> Ken & Tracie wrote:
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> Even so, nothing will top the story of the "75 mph race" between the 
> late 1930s Chevrolet and the PCC car we all read a few years ago. ;-)
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> K. 

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That was further down in the post  --  not far from the bottom  --  see 
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> > From: "R. J. Halperin"
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> > Based on information I gleaned from the engineers at GE,  I would suspect that something was wrong with that guy's speedometer.        While the balancing speed of those cars was 42-45 mph, there was a strong likelihood that the bands on the motor would fail at a speed of 55mph,  depending upon how long that speed was maintained.       I've heard people in Detroit say their PCCs went 80 mph!
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>From: "James B. Holland" <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com>
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>This is borne out by other engineers as well.        Believe it or not, there is an individual who claimed he clocked one Pittsburgh 87-Ardmore PCC Inbound on Ardmore Blvd.  (center of the highway prw  --  Inbound is Mostly UpHill, by the way)  at 90-mph!!!!!!!       This was about 1960  --  only thing I can see is that he got caught at a red light and personally did 90-mph to catch the trolley after that but I personally doubt the PCC even got near 40-mph UpHill let alone 90!!!
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Jim__Holland


I__Like__Ike.......And__PCCs!!

down with pantographs ---- UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!!!!!