[PRCo] Re: Interurban Route Speeds

[Boris Cefer]

Some of the 1700 and 1600 series PCCs were designed to carry acceleration up 
to a higher speed than the earlier models, that might be why you seemed 
flying.

B

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Matt Matsick" <mtoytrain at bellsouth.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 1:50 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Interurban Route Speeds


>I had  the opportunity to ride the Charleroi Interurban and thinking back 
>as a 10-12 year old boy, I thought the car was  "flying", but in reality it 
>probably wasn't, all I know on some of the open straight aways, it seemed 
>like we were "flying",  some thoughts on this?
> and travel times from Pittsburgh to Li'l Wash and to Charleroi,  the 
> conversations on this
> group have been fantastic, keep it up!
> Jerry Matsick