[PRCo] Re: Mattapan - Ashmont line in Boston

[Richard Allman]

so not as long as PTM, eh? Too bad they didn't roster the line w/ one or two 
from each series of Boston PCC's-Trmont, Commonwealth (which all the cars 
are now), All-Electric, Picture Window, and Dallas-could have been a 
fabulous heritage line!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 12:40 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Mattapan - Ashmont line in Boston


>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.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashmont–Mattapan_High_Speed_Line
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> On Feb 6, 2008, at 11:35 PM, Mark McGuire wrote:
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>>  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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>>>>
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