[PRCo] Skybus piece from Post Gazette

[Dwight Long]

Fred

To what ride do you refer?

I can’t find anything relating to a ride in a Jones car in the antecedents.  Sounds like a story worth knowing about.  

At the end of Jones cars, or approaching the end, were not the ten DE cars that were retained all equipped with the rewound, “high speed” motors and controls?

Dwight

From: Fred Schneider 
Sent: Thursday, 10 April, 2014 11:04
To: Western PA Trolley discussion 
Subject: Re: [PRCo] Skybus piece from Post Gazette
First of all, I do not remember if the car was a 3700 or a 5400.   It was obviously a high speed because there were no low speeds left by that time except double-end cars.    A 3700 had lower ratio gearing so it would achieve higher speeds but would take longer to get there.   A standard high speed low floor city car might be good for about 37 mph while a 3750 might do 45 or so.   

The interurbans beyond Drake and Library were quite slow when I rode them in March 30 and 31, 1953.   One Charleroi motorman explained that once the company decided to give up, they also quit maintaining the tracks.    But even north of Drake and Library, I don't remember it as being good before the LRV era.  

Now go down to Dallas and ride DART.   They have some 60 mph operation.   It's hard to fathom a single light rail line that is 50 miles long but that is what the Red Line is from Plano to Dallas to DFW Airport.   It is their version of the Paoli local. 


On Apr 10, 2014, at 10:06 AM, John Swindler wrote:

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> The recollection is a somewhat bumpy, slow ride.  But perceptions can be deceiving.  Speed might have been as fast as the PCC cars attempting to negotiate PAT's abysmal trackwork from that era.  
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> Which brings back a memory of last day of Drake around 1999 - PCC operator was running 'pedal to the metal' -  and kept thinking that this was amazing - something never experienced 25-30 years earlier from the Skybus era.      
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>> From: alto_trombone at hotmail.com
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org
>> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 06:01:38 -0400
>> Subject: Re: [PRCo] Skybus piece from Post Gazette
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>> I rode it. Who else?
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>> Dennis F. Cramer 
>> http://home.windstream.net/dfc1/
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>>> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 12:59:35 -0400
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>>> Found by one of Bombardier's (nee Westinghouse) employees and forwarded to me by Dave Hamley.   Thanks Dave.
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