[PRCo] Re: PRCo___1700s-__-Delivery

[Boris Cefer]

This is the high field shunting I mentioned some time back. This article
confirms that it provided faster acceleration at higher speeds and faster up
grade operation.
Now, were all 1700s equipped this way? (GE cars?)

Boris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Holland Electric Rwy. Op. H.E.R.O. - SPTC / James B.Holland"
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To: "- 1714 PRCo__WP__JTC -" <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 10:56 PM
Subject: [PRCo] PRCo___1700s-__-Delivery


> The following is gleaned from *--Mass___Transportation--*  January_1949,
> pgs.48-51:::
> .
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> .
> """Last month Pittsburgh, perhaps the strongest of the street car's few
> remaining strongholds, took delivery on the first of 100 new
> streamliners. These 100 new cars will bring the company's streamline
> fleet to 666 cars, with nearly as many old timers of various vintages
> swelling the total of cars covering the hilly steel city's more than 500
> miles of track...."""
> .......
> .......
> """Improved control circuits make the operation of the cars smoother.
> These improvements include:"""
> .
> """3:___A change has been made in the motor control which permits
> carrying the acceleration rate to a higher speed which, in effect, means
> that the cars can operate up grades faster. This is tied in with a Speed
> Governing Relay, which will not permit the cars to exceed a
> predetermined maximum speed."""