[PRCo] Re: Question about 69 Squirrel Hill Route

[Boris Cefer]

Before the conversion to B-3 trucks, B-2 trucks on1613 were fitted with 
friction dampers.

Boris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phillip Clark Campbell" <pcc_sr at yahoo.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 3:17 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Question about 69 Squirrel Hill Route


Mr.Cefer,


As mentioned earlier, the original B2s with which 1613 started
service to Washington in January 1946 had weight added to them.
At least by the time that 1614 was converted for interurban service,
1613 and 1614 each got a set of "experimental B3s" that were
on the 1200s.

I do not know that 1613 received its original trucks back when those
B3s were removed by the mid-1950s but it was nevertheless a hard
riding car that was disliked.

One could assume from what I wrote below that the B2s were special
trucks; they were not. But they were not good riding.



Phil