[PRR-talk] Three MP54 questions

[robert netzlof]

--- On Thu, 6/12/08, Bruce Smith <smithbf at auburn.edu> wrote:

> From: Bruce Smith <smithbf at auburn.edu>
> Subject: Re: [PRR-talk] Three MP54 questions
> To: ndbprr at att.net
> Cc: "PRR-Talk" <Prr-Talk at dsop.com>
> Date: Thursday, June 12, 2008, 4:02 PM
> On Jun 12, 2008, at 2:52 PM, ndbprr at att.net wrote:
> > 2. On MP54 cars without pantographs were they powered?
> 
> No.  Note that these cars were class MP54T, know as
> trailers, and  
> were equipped with a control stand and electric heat, so
> there were  
> electric jumpers and MU controls from the powered car,
> however, the  
> MP54T cars did not have traction motors.  The pantograph
> equipped  
> cars that they were paired with had larger traction motors
> to  
> compensate.

Let us not forget also that there were scads of MP54 coaches (MP54A, I think) and their baggage, baggage-mail, and coach-baggage brethern on the Pittsburgh and Conemaugh divisions and perhaps elsewhere outside the electrified territory.

Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob