[PRCo] Re: Question about 69 Squirrel Hill Route

[Dwight Long]

Derrick

Or possibly it was not weight at all, but friction dampers?

Dwight

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derrick Brashear" <shadow at gmail.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 3:37 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Question about 69 Squirrel Hill Route


>I assume they were ballasted by filling something hollow with concrete or 
>lead or somesuch
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> On May 4, 2012, at 2:18 PM, "Boris Cefer" <westinghouse at iol.cz> wrote:
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>> What does it mean "weight"?
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>> ----- 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
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>> Mr.Cefer,
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> One could assume from what I wrote below that the B2s were special
>> trucks; they were not. But they were not good riding.
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>>
>>
>> Phil
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