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  2. From: yhshowie@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Howard Wharton)
  3. Newsgroups: rec.railroad
  4. Subject: Re: NEC
  5. Message-ID: <C1A9rx.Hww@acsu.buffalo.edu>
  6. Date: 23 Jan 93 01:37:00 GMT
  7. References: <1jjf1oINN8vf@iraul1.ira.uka.de> <16B5CF000.M00209@MBVM.Mitre.Org> <1993Jan21.223109.5326@ryn.mro4.dec.com> <3212@tymix.Tymnet.COM>
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  14. In article <3212@tymix.Tymnet.COM>, romeo@niagara.Tymnet.COM (Michael Stimac) writes...
  15. >In article <1993Jan21.223109.5326@ryn.mro4.dec.com> pierson@empror.enet.dec.com (dave pierson) writes:
  16. > 
  17. >>    Actaully, they were pretty compatible, from 1920ish on.  The power
  18. >>    didn't run thru because that "wasn't done", at the time.  Earlier, Penn
  19. >>    Staion was third rail, 600VDC, overrunning third rail, so either
  20. >>    PRR DD1 e-loks or NH power with thrid rail shoes (also used elsewhere)
  21. > 
  22. >        ^^^^^^
  23. >        BLECHHH!
  24. > 
  25. >>    ran into Penn Station.
  26. > 
  27. > 
  28.   Power (motors) were changed at Sunnyside...New Haven's motors that ran
  29. into GCT were designed to run on NYCs underrunning 3rd rail not on
  30. PRR/LIRR overrunning third rail. I belive that the FL-9s shoes could be
  31. changed to over or underrunning.
  32.