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Re: New Bart Cars found to be too heavy
Author: HUTCH 7.62
Date: 02-22-2017 - 14:09
Margaret (SP fan) Wrote:
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> BART's top speed back in the 1970s was definitely
> 80.
> I know because my boys and I rode BART for fun
> every
> so often on weekends all over its system, and
> loved
> to walk up to the operators compartment and look
> through
> the large window in the door and watch the large
> red numbers
> of the digital speedometer as they changed, as
> well as the
> other read-outs. It always went up to 80 when
> stations were
> far enough apart.
>
> The cars were clean and those large seats were
> very
> comfortable and the upholstery was very
> attractive.
>
> I heard that BART later dropped it maximum speed
> to 70
> because going faster caused problems of some
> sort.
>
> (FWIW -- I always thought the original A cars
> looked kind
> of like caterpillars! It is really, really
> very
> much too bad that a complete A car was not saved.
> Yes, I
> know that the Bay Area Electric Railway
> Association does
> have the front end of an A car, but for some
> reason they
> never got a whole car. A real shame. No, they
> could never
> have operated irt, but I very much wish tyey had
> gotten one.)
>
> Thank you, Dr. Zarkoff, for telling us the true
> story about
> exactly how fast BART can go. 110!! -- Wow!!
> Now, there
> were a number of steam locomotives that supposedly
> went
> faster than 110 -- the Milwaukee Road Hudsons
> ("F-7s"), and
> ]maybe the UP's 800s, and others, but the only
> reliably
> documented time any steam locomotive went really,
> really
> FAST was the famous time when the "Mallard" went
> 126 mph.
> (FWIW, a now-deceased friend who was an active
> member of the
> GGRM when we were at Humter's Point had been a
> Milwaukee
> Road fireman in the later steam era out of
> Chicago. He fired
> their high- drivered (84-inch) F-7s, and he said
> his "personal
> best" (top speed) was 127.6 mph! No, that was
> never officially
> verified, and was from timing mileposts. He did
> say it did
> take them 15 miles to get up to past 100 mph, and
> that there
> was a 100 mph speed restriction at the crossover
> with the
> Eljin Joliet & Eastern RR. FWIW, there are
> stories that many
> of the 84-inch-drivered Hudsons and Atlantics
> often went
> faster than 120 mph. Again -- none of those speeds
> were ever
> offically verified, but that is what the engine
> crews said.
>
> synonymouse --
> 99-100-101 mph?? WOW!! You were soooo lucky to
> have experienced
> that!
>
>
> Thaks, everyone, for all the fascinating info!
Did'nt know there was an original A car? I thought all A cars were the same.
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> BART's top speed back in the 1970s was definitely
> 80.
> I know because my boys and I rode BART for fun
> every
> so often on weekends all over its system, and
> loved
> to walk up to the operators compartment and look
> through
> the large window in the door and watch the large
> red numbers
> of the digital speedometer as they changed, as
> well as the
> other read-outs. It always went up to 80 when
> stations were
> far enough apart.
>
> The cars were clean and those large seats were
> very
> comfortable and the upholstery was very
> attractive.
>
> I heard that BART later dropped it maximum speed
> to 70
> because going faster caused problems of some
> sort.
>
> (FWIW -- I always thought the original A cars
> looked kind
> of like caterpillars! It is really, really
> very
> much too bad that a complete A car was not saved.
> Yes, I
> know that the Bay Area Electric Railway
> Association does
> have the front end of an A car, but for some
> reason they
> never got a whole car. A real shame. No, they
> could never
> have operated irt, but I very much wish tyey had
> gotten one.)
>
> Thank you, Dr. Zarkoff, for telling us the true
> story about
> exactly how fast BART can go. 110!! -- Wow!!
> Now, there
> were a number of steam locomotives that supposedly
> went
> faster than 110 -- the Milwaukee Road Hudsons
> ("F-7s"), and
> ]maybe the UP's 800s, and others, but the only
> reliably
> documented time any steam locomotive went really,
> really
> FAST was the famous time when the "Mallard" went
> 126 mph.
> (FWIW, a now-deceased friend who was an active
> member of the
> GGRM when we were at Humter's Point had been a
> Milwaukee
> Road fireman in the later steam era out of
> Chicago. He fired
> their high- drivered (84-inch) F-7s, and he said
> his "personal
> best" (top speed) was 127.6 mph! No, that was
> never officially
> verified, and was from timing mileposts. He did
> say it did
> take them 15 miles to get up to past 100 mph, and
> that there
> was a 100 mph speed restriction at the crossover
> with the
> Eljin Joliet & Eastern RR. FWIW, there are
> stories that many
> of the 84-inch-drivered Hudsons and Atlantics
> often went
> faster than 120 mph. Again -- none of those speeds
> were ever
> offically verified, but that is what the engine
> crews said.
>
> synonymouse --
> 99-100-101 mph?? WOW!! You were soooo lucky to
> have experienced
> that!
>
>
> Thaks, everyone, for all the fascinating info!
Did'nt know there was an original A car? I thought all A cars were the same.
