See the latest post on the Capitol Transit thread.
Thanks. Sure Jack May will want to visit just to ride it!
I would too if I were still living in New York or Boston (Cambridge).
Rode DC 1304's last pre-service test run yesterday. The plow hanger has been re-installed. There's a plow on display on a bracket inside the car. Other than a sticky gong, it ran quite nicely. The web site www.trolleymuseum.org now shows the event.
Like many U.S. museums Seashore has had to adapt to strange circumstances this year. Only Friday, July 3, did the Governor lift 14-day quarantine restrictions for residents of New England. New Hampshire and Vermont were exempted earlier. Other states get a long wait.
Glad to know it is preserved. 629 at Branford lost it when equipped with poles for Bronx service, and the Third Avenue car at Seashore: 646-686 were alway pole cars.
The plow bracket is off for the moment to allow for motor access. It's easy enough to remount it, and it will get it out of the shop.
You probably answered this before:
Does the car at Seashore still have its attachment to take a cnduit plow?
Well. whoever put it on Facebook could have put it on the website.
I avoid Facebook as much as possible.
And the lack of an equipment list with descriptions and photos is shameful.
If NSRA can do it, so can Seashore. www.streetcar.org
At least the operating fleet.
Visit the Branford website, www.bera.org
It usually gets there pretty quickly. The decision to put the car in public service wasn't finalized until Wednesday.
The Facebook material belongs on the Website, not just Facebook.
Big mistake on Seashore's part
Info on State of Art Raid Transit cars but none n the cars you can ride!
What a contrast to Shore Line Trolley and Narket Street Railway!
It's posted on the Facebook page (Seashore Trolley Museum).
www.facebook.com/neerhs
It wasn't a slam dunk to get it ready. Due to the car's history as a GE test bed it had some control system quirks.
Scroll down the page to see me at work there.
How on their website can I read about the Capitol Transit PCC rollout?
I draw a blank when I try to find it!
I did sign up for the newsletter.
Perhaps I should go back and use their search for newletter instead of Capitol Transit or PCC or July 4th.
Very nice, terrific actually. Best of luck with it all and have a great 4th of July.
DC Transit PCC 1304 will be used for public rides Saturday July 4, 2020 by the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport ME. This will be its first public outing in 10 years. I rode it on one of its test runs a couple of weeks ago.
www.trolleymuseum.org
Posting Dot-Connector's provided photo of the installation of the plow carrier under a PCC car's truck in the Georgetown Carhouse. The orange stripes are the rails supporting the plow that allow it to move side-to-side.
I lived in Manhattan, but Jack May lived in The Bronx. So, his memry of Marble Hill is better than miine, as proven by my own photos. So a major correctioin has been made:
answering a questiono to my email box. N-S street is Broadway
"C" to B'way & 263nd St., NY-Yonkers Line
"K" to 125th ST. and 3rd Ave., plus Bronx pull-ins and put-outs, Kingsbridge Carhouse at B'way 215th St., south end of this overhead wire.
Tracks on W. 225 used by "C" and Bronx pull-ins and put-outs
Whew!
Thanks David!
Correct
MidlandMike Why didn't they use a single conductor/wire like the trolleys?
Why didn't they use a single conductor/wire like the trolleys?
I could be wrong on this, but they didn't want overhead trolley wires in Washington DC due to the "eyesore" factor.
Anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
The Third Avenue System, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Westchester County, had only two loops, at 129th Street and 3rd Avenue for pole cars from The Bronx, track in through summwe 1947, but service stopped around 1938 because of one-way traffic on 3rd Avenue bridge (The elevated's was at 2nd Avenue.) and Classon Point on Long Island Sound in the very-far-east mid-Bronx, whch was bussed in the 1st post-WWII Bronx conversion in March 1947. All Third Avenue and New York Railways equipment was double-end, and single-and double-track terminals were used throughout the system.
The ends of all Washington, DC, lines excep the single-track, single-car Belltsville-Branchville shuttle, had loops, and all its PCCs were single-end, as were some of its older deck-roof cars. Some short-turn (cut-back) points, including a few in conduit territory, has simple trailing crossovers, and this required the retention of some double-end cars. Brooklyn was a mixture, but all its 100 PCCs were single end, and no conduit was used in Brooklyn after Third Avenue withdrew its Manhattan Bridge service around the time of WWI.
You can send me conduit-related photos, davekleppper@yahoo.com, and I'll gladly post them.
MidlandMike Did conduit systems use reversing loops at the end of the line. It seems they would have the same problem as a 2 rail model RR.
Did conduit systems use reversing loops at the end of the line. It seems they would have the same problem as a 2 rail model RR.
According to Richey and Greenough's monumental "Electric Railway Handbook" (McGraw-Hill 1915):
"The distribution system is identical for positive and negative sides and is controlled at substations by double-pole double-throw switches, which make it possible to reverse the polarity if necessary on account of gounds on different sides of different circuits."
Both positive and negative conductors were in the slot - polarity does not matter with series wound motors.
The hatches in the street allow access to the slot contactor supports. The spacing - roughly 15 feet apart on straight track - is a remnant of Cable conduit construction.
Thank you for the offer! Actually, I imagine Maryland will open about when Maine does, and I will again have access to #1101, which also still has its plow bracket. I have a picture of a plow installed under a similar PCC car, but can't quite make out what is bracket and what is truck. I have another image of a conduit plow in the museum's collection, which I added to this image for comparison. I wanted to show the folks here so I could ask intelligent questions. If I ever figure out how to submit pictures to this blog, I can post it. Apparently, a link to GoogleDrive does not work. I may have better luck with a Flickr link.
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