Re: (erielack) Pullman Standard Commuter Coaches

[Michael E Allen <"ptrmgtsvc_@_juno.com">]

The "blunt" Arrows were originally intended for conversion when the
re-electrification of the DL&W. The P-S push-pulls were of a "standard"
design that could be ordered as straight coach, control car, or electric
. Bombardier later dummied up a diesel MU using the same basic design.
While conversions of these cars are theoretically possible, they were not
built with that intent.

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On Mon, 10 May 1999 22:05:35 -0400 "Schuyler G. Larrabee"
<"SGL2_@_IX.NETCOM.COM"> writes:
> Paul R Tupaczewski wrote:
>
>> Hmmm... interesting. It just struck me as a little odd that these 
>cars
>would
>> be made into MU's. Most MU's, I thought, should have an operator's 
>cab on
>> one end, and this just isn't the case with these cars. Obviously it 
>could
>be
>> done; it would just be a bit inconvenient.
>
>Maybe the intent was just to be able to electrify the trains, using
>push-pull cabs?  This way you have distributed power pickup for the 
>motors
>of one or two cars, kinda like the DL&W mu's were, but only useable 
>with a
>cab-car setup at one or each end of a train's worth of cars.
>
>SGL
>
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