[PRCo] Mattapan - Ashmont line in Boston

[Fred Schneider]

I never cease to be amazed at what a one minute search on Google will  
turn up.   The answer is 2.2 miles.   See Wikipedia article below.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashmont–Mattapan_High_Speed_Line

On Feb 6, 2008, at 11:35 PM, Mark McGuire wrote:

>  How long is this line? I don't think it's very long and thankfully  
> so. I don't think many people could take a long ride sitting on  
> those seats. Also, did the stations used to be at ground level?
>
> -- Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:
> No kidding.   But consider the alternative.
>
> On Feb 6, 2008, at 2:22 PM, Ken & Tracie wrote:
>
>> 25 mph? I guess we can't call the car line the "Mattapan-Ashmont
>> High Speed
>> Trolley Line" anymore, either....
>>
>> K.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 2:20 AM
>> Subject: [PRCo]
>>
>>
>>> The original message was posted by Bob Vogel to Philly Traction at
>>> yahoogroups and shows pictures he took of the reopened Mattapan-
>>> Ashmont service in Boston on Monday.   I find it amazing that those
>>> PCC cars are still soldiering on 65 years after they were built but
>>> the Boeing Vertol cars built in the 1980s have long since been
>>> retired.    Are these really PCC cars?   Russ Jackson quipped that
>>> they were PCC-D for degraded.  They no longer meet the original
>>> performance specification ... they only are capable of about 25  
>>> miles
>>> per hour.  As I recall they do not use field weakening today after
>>> all resistance is cut out.   And they have solid steel wheels  
>>> instead
>>> of resilient wheels because of an alleged inability to maintain the
>>> shunts around the rubber wheel sandwiches which were needed not only
>>> to ground the car 's electrical system but more importantly for
>>> signal protection.   So Fred the Third would not call them PCCs.
>>> He would be more likely to consider a car that was more advanced  
>>> than
>>> a PCC a PCC but certainly not one that had stepped backward into the
>>> shadows.
>>>
>>> photographed on Monday
>>> Ashmont station
>>> http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1040070
>>>
>>> Mattapan terminal
>>> http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1040196
>>> http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1040197
>>> http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1040198
>>> http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1040199
>>>
>>> interior
>>> http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1040200
>>>
>>> Ashmont loop
>>> http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1040071
>>> http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1040072
>>> http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1040073
>>>
>>>
>>> __._,_.___
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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