Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Horsepower

Over the weekend I was briefly loaned a book that was issued by the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum back in the 1970s, when it was the Arden Trolley Museum. It was a reprint of a 1925 Westinghouse motor catalog, and listed most - if not all - of the motors Westinghouse had built for street railway use up to that time. Motor number, horsepower, voltage, RPM, and other information was included, along with notes. This has allowed me to add horsepower ratings to a lot of the equipment on the PNAERC list (fun fact: 757 cars on the PNAERC list have, or ought to have, Westinghouse motors, according to my admittedly incomplete listings). The "total horsepower" field may not be all that tremendously fascinating, but it can be useful information. So, does anyone have a similar catalog of GE motors? Or a later Westinghouse catalog that would include post-1925 types?

And in completely unrelated news, the above photo was posted today on the PCC Trolley Club Facebook page by Michael McKinnon. It shows MBTA 3265, which is the first of the Mattapan-Ashmont cars to go through the latest generation of overhaul, and has now shown back up on its old stomping grounds, presumably for burn-in testing. It looks like this rebuild was largely in-kind, and happily the car has kept its attractive orange/cream/silver BER/MTA era livery. This car went to Everett Shops for rebuild back in 2019 along with car 3234, which is still being worked on. I've read that car 3260, which was damaged in a wreck in 2017, may be next in line for work.

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