[PRCo] Re: Cleveland_--_Shaker

[Fred Schneider]

If you'll look at the time / distance chart in the PCC book, Boris.

On Feb 2, 2007, at 12:53 AM, Boris Cefer wrote:

> It takes a mile to get up to that speed? With an empty or full car?
> Our PCCs (empty) need ca 0.1 mile to get up to 32 to 35 mph. I  
> don't think
> one mile is exact estimate for 43.5 mph.
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> B
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 1:39 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Cleveland_--_Shaker
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>> O doubt of the average on Shaker was over 20 mph because they made
>> far more stops that the Pittsburgh interurbans and the top speed was
>> still nothing more than a standard PCC but modified with 1 inch
>> larger wheels  ... the balancing speed might have been 43.5 unless
>> they were governed to a lower speed but we need to remember it still
>> takes a mile to get up to that speed.   You might have gotten 45
>> downhill into the terminal with a full car in the AM rush but up hill
>> in the evening rush hour with standees ... I would bet that 30 mph
>> was pushing the envelope even with no stops for a full mile.   And
>> once you passed Shaker Square, you would have no more than a quarter
>> mile between stops.    The advantage that Shaker Heights had was that
>> long haul with only two intermediate stops between (I my mind is
>> working ... E. 55th and E 34th)  between Shaker Square and the
>> Terminal.   You could not do that with a bus or a car or your own
>> automobile on city streets.
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