[PRCo] Re: Real Tales--No. 1/Unscheduled Meet

[hrbran99 at adelphia.net]

Take a look at your post........cc to FWS!! Also this one I am now writing sprang up with jbh at p-r-co.com in the cc line. It seems like is has something to do with the list computer. At least we don't have to worry about missing anyone!
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HrB

---- jbh at p-r-co.com wrote: 
> > hrbran99 at adelphia.net writes:
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> > .......The signal systems in use back then were certainly products of the 'industrial' age.   Even in 1979 when I would look at the signals and the associated hardware that went with them they seemed very 'old fashioned' to me.   I remember some of them even had large storage batteries in their bases.   I always wondered what would happen if several batteries went dead at the same time!
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> Forgot to mention Two Things:::
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> 01.>--__When you responded to the list message, the header indicates an 
> email address  TO: The List and CC: fws3  --  your computer is getting very 
> consistent! I still get double emails from you when you reply to one of my 
> messages onlist  --  not a complaint, Herb  --  just observation!
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> 02.>--__The US&S signalling was set up for fail safe.  Relays Are Activated 
>  - powered - to set the Green light - wheels across the track short out this 
> circuit so the relays drop out to produce the Red Board.  Should the battery 
> system fail, all green lights would go to red and then the rule book needs 
> to be consulted on how to proceed.  Lights *_Possibly_* energized from the 
> 600 overhead but certainly by a power source separate from the battery 
> system.  Was the battery system 40-volts?  Don't know why that figger sticks 
> in my mind  --  seems an odd value but then the 32-volt batteries on PCCs is 
> not exactly common!!
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> The battery system used fo the US&S signals was only 3.5 times that of the 
> voltage to control model TrolleyCars-_-I-F the 40-volt figger is correct.
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> Believe US&S installed the signals on PRCo in the very late 1920s or very 
> early 1930s.
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> Jim__Holland
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> I....Like....IKE__---__And....PCCs!
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> down...with...pantographs.......
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> UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!
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