[PRCo] Re: TrolleyCar___Speed

[Ken & Tracie]

Fred, what did those two young motormen in SLC tell us...that if the gearing 
was changed in their LRVs, they could do...what was it? 120 mph?

How "legends" are born...:-)

K.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 6:26 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: TrolleyCar___Speed


>I love it ... Jim's statement "the way we like to remember it."
>
> We had someone come to Arden and tell us we were idiots because we
> didn't know that the Red Arrow cars were 75 mph vehicles and he knew
> all about them.   I notice that the new docent manual says 55 mph and
> that was an error I put into the old one before I found the corrected
> number.   Westinghouse literature for the PST Brilliners with 1433
> motors is 59 mph balancing speed.   I suspect that the postwar St.
> Looies, being heavier, might be a little slower or might take a
> little longer to get up to 59 mph.
>
> And my VW Passat goes like the wind too.   But I also know that the
> speedometer isn't correct and that it reads fast...67 to 68 when its
> actually doing 65.     And if I don't check tire pressure every week
> it will read even faster.
>
> On Apr 3, 2006, at 2:24 AM, Holland Electric Rwy. Op. H.E.R.O. --
> Import SPTC 1.48 Models // James B. Holland wrote:
>
>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: James B. Holland"
>>>
>>>> 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!!!
>>>
>>
>>>> Ken & Tracie wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 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. ;-)
>>>
>>> K.
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