[PRCo] Re: Heaters

[Fred Schneider]

I understand that.   And I understood that when I made the comment  
about museum operations.   A car sitting in a museum doesn't heat in  
the winter.   Even an interurban 1700.

On Aug 3, 2006, at 1:32 PM, Boris Cefer wrote:

> The reason is frequent low speed acceleration (on resistors) and  
> braking
> with city cars (they were not running?) in sharp contrast with long  
> sections
> without any resistance acceleration or braking on interurban lines.  
> And a
> car running at a high speed in an open countryside will require higher
> output of heaters than a car on a city line.
>
> B
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 4:49 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Heaters
>
>
>> Boris:
>>
>> If, as you assume, the city cars had enough heat at 10 kw to be
>> adequate if they were not running, then why did the interurban cars
>> require twice as many heaters?    I rest my case.
>>
>> fws
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