[PRCo] Re: Motor flashovers on PCC cars

[Boris Cefer]

+/- because not all motors are identical, but 25 to 30 mph sounds correct.

I think this was a policy to show the streetcars in a bad light (slow) to 
get rid of the surviving streetcar riders and then of the remaining 
streetcars because buses are far better.

B

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 5:25 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Motor flashovers on PCC cars


> Does it not strike someone beside me as strange that MTA / MBTA had
> to downgrade the PCCs in Boston to 25 mph to prevent motor
> flashovers and the French run passenger trains every day of the week
> at 160 mph and just set a new world's record of 574.8 kilometers /
> hour (359.25 mph)?  It's enough to make a grown man cry.
>
> I know Phil said 35 mph in his letter.  However, the motor speed
> charts for PCCs show that field shunting begins at 25 mph and field
> shunting was removed from the Boston cars.   I think Boris will agree
> with me that the now top out at 25 mph (40 km/h) on zero resistance.
>
>