[PRCo] Re: Cleveland_--_Shaker

[Boris Cefer]

It does. DC motors are still in daily use almost everywhere, being very
slowly pushed out of business by 3-phase AC engines. And isn't it resistance
control technology which moves millions of people in New York City?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 5:53 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Cleveland_--_Shaker


> Does it matter?   That is 75 year old obsolete technology.   Transit
> Research went out of business a half century ago.   It's successor
> merged with ATA more than 30 years ago.   The Westinghouse files are
> in a cave underground.   They don't make the stuff anymore.
> Westinghouse as a company doesn't even exist.   Resistance control
> technology was phased out 25 years ago.   DELETE KEY.
>