Re: (erielack) Pullman Standard Commuter Coaches

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

Amending my earlier comment:

The bulk of NJT's fleet was built as what they are. The original NJDOT
cars were indeed constructed as EMUs, less propulsion and control systems

MEA
 
On Tue, 11 May 1999 16:36:29 EDT Michael E Allen <"ptrmgtsvc_@_juno.com">
writes:
>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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