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Posted by Dan Lawrence on Mon Jan 27 10:26:09 2014, in response to Re: NJT #26 @Baltimore Streetcar Museum, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Thu Jan 23 20:58:34 2014. Our shop can do wonderful things. We also have several sets of our gauge trucks in storage. |
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Posted by Dan Lawrence on Mon Jan 27 10:32:08 2014, in response to Re: NJT #26 @Baltimore Streetcar Museum, posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Jan 24 20:54:56 2014. Generally top PCC speed was 42MPH. |
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Posted by Dan Lawrence on Mon Jan 27 10:39:41 2014, in response to Re: NJT #26 @Baltimore Streetcar Museum, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Thu Jan 23 21:11:59 2014. You are correct!!! The guess is carriage builders in Baltimore spaced their wheels 5' 4 1/2 and they made the first horse cars. Once the gauge was established it stayed. |
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Posted by Dan Lawrence on Mon Jan 27 10:48:56 2014, in response to Re: NJT #26 @Baltimore Streetcar Museum, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Thu Jan 23 21:11:02 2014. Philadelphia has 5'2.25", Pittsburgh has 5' 2.5". Why Philly has it's wierd gauge nobody knows. |
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Posted by Wado MP73 on Mon Jan 27 11:44:03 2014, in response to Re: NJT #26 @Baltimore Streetcar Museum, posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Sun Jan 26 21:33:14 2014. Yup. I noticed that.
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Jan 27 14:37:31 2014, in response to Re: NJT #26 @Baltimore Streetcar Museum, posted by Dan Lawrence on Mon Jan 27 10:32:08 2014. I suspect Newark might have pulled a few field coil tricks. They slightly beat cars on an adjacent road. |
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Posted by Randyo on Mon Jan 27 15:32:42 2014, in response to Re: NJT #26 @Baltimore Streetcar Museum, posted by Wado MP73 on Sun Jan 26 20:55:38 2014. Did you get a memorial poster? |
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Posted by Randyo on Mon Jan 27 15:37:54 2014, in response to Re: NJT #26 @Baltimore Streetcar Museum, posted by TransitChuckG on Sun Jan 26 18:59:19 2014. I first rode Newark City Subway around 1960 and on my many railfanning trips to Newark on the Hudson Tubes and later PATH, I always managed to take a trip on the City Subway over the years. It was the closest place for me to ride PCCs since Bkln and DC trolleys shut down and I really didn't have the opportunity to go the Philly or Boston. I had ridden Bkln PCCs when I was younger and thanks to my uncle who lived in the DC area, was able to ride DC's PCCs quite a bit including the ERA's fan trips on the last day of operation in 1962. |
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Posted by Wado MP73 on Mon Jan 27 18:08:13 2014, in response to Re: NJT #26 @Baltimore Streetcar Museum, posted by Randyo on Mon Jan 27 15:32:42 2014. No, but I got the PCC shaped card and special ticket. I also bought a VHS tape. |
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Posted by jan k. lorenzen on Tue Jan 28 22:37:34 2014, in response to Re: NJT #26 @Baltimore Streetcar Museum, posted by Randyo on Sun Jan 26 18:33:07 2014. I was on 6 and a couple of the cars getting put into storage during the day. I got to be on the VIP car by showing up at the right time. The original car that was going to be VIP with all the bunting crapped out (wouldn't take power). I was there part of because of it being the last day, part being a PCC fan, part of knowing the shop guys from training me on PCC maintenance for Brooklyn's sisters to the Newark cars. I got some trinkets to take home :) |
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Posted by TransitChuckG on Sun Feb 10 16:16:00 2019, in response to NJT #26 @Baltimore Streetcar Museum, posted by TransitChuckG on Tue Jan 21 17:31:13 2014. #26 repainting |
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