[PRCo] Re: Motor flashovers on PCC cars

[Fred Schneider]

That would imply we have a policy and that we think.  I believe,  
Boris, you are giving too much credit.  Transit tends to be knee jerk  
and reactionary.   It isn't policy.   It's simply that we haven't  
spent the money to fix anything and now we're caught with our pants  
down so we have to downgrade the equipment to provide any service at  
all.

On Apr 28, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Boris Cefer wrote:

> +/- 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.
>>
>>
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