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- From: pierson@empror.enet.dec.com (dave pierson)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Re: NEC
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.170425.10648@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 20:00:52 GMT
- References: <1jjf1oINN8vf@iraul1.ira.uka.de> <16B5CF000.M00209@MBVM.Mitre.Org> <1993Jan21.223109.5326@ryn.mro4.dec.com> <3212@tymix.Tymnet.COM> <C1A9rx.Hww@acsu.buffalo.edu>
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- In article <C1A9rx.Hww@acsu.buffalo.edu>, yhshowie@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu
- (Howard Wharton) writes, in part:
-
- >In article <3212@tymix.Tymnet.COM>, romeo@niagara.Tymnet.COM (Michael Stimac)
- >writes...
- >>In article <1993Jan21.223109.5326@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
- >>pierson@empror.enet.dec.com (dave pierson) writes:
- >>
- >>> Actaully, they were pretty compatible, from 1920ish on. The power
- >>> didn't run thru because that "wasn't done", at the time. Earlier, Penn
- >>> Staion was third rail, 600VDC, overrunning third rail, so either
- >>> PRR DD1 e-loks or NH power with thrid rail shoes (also used elsewhere)
- >>> ran into Penn Station.
-
- > Power (motors) were changed at Sunnyside...New Haven's motors that ran
- >into GCT were designed to run on NYCs underrunning 3rd rail not on
- >PRR/LIRR overrunning third rail. I belive that the FL-9s shoes could be
- >changed to over or underrunning.
- hmmmm. This is not real well documented, and may have changed from
- generation to generation of the NH Electrics. I believe that any
- purchased after the NY Connecting (the line from New Rochelle to
- Harold) had three way shoes: all the way up, overrunning, underrruning.
-
- The NH Employee TT certainly refers to NH locos equipped to run into
- Penn Station: They needed ATS to meet PRR requirements for tunnel ops.
- A change of power in Penn Station would save a stop at Harold. Harold
- also seems to be referenced in the NH Employee TT as the dividing line:
- specific reference is made to rake off blocks at Harold. (these would
- knock off 3rd rail shoes, in case they hadn't raised, to prevent the
- shoes fouling something further along.)
-
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