[PRCo] Streetcars in D.C.

[Fred Schneider]

I turned over all the stuff from the PCC book research to the PTM library.   



On Nov 6, 2015, at 2:03 AM, Daria Phoebe Brashear via Pittsburgh-railways wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Remember when the Presidents' Conference Committee did a study in the
>> early 1930s to see what the jerk limits were that people could tolerate on
>> a streetcar?   Seems no one knows where that material is today.   The study
>> is going to be redone next weekend in Baltimore on the light rail.   How do
>> I know?   I have been asked to be a victim because I'm arthritic and have
>> artificial knees.   They want to know if I can stand up when they jerk me
>> around.   There will be a dozen or so people being battered around starting
>> at 5:30 next Sunday morning to restudy what we already know and have
>> forgotten.   We're reinventing wheels.
>> 
>> 
> What ever became of this study?
> 
> Daria
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> Daria Phoebe Brashear
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