Re: Re: MMTB & MSR motors [was W2 v Milano]

Thanks. I'm surprised to hear most were GE247s. Of the six cars we have in
Seattle, all are MV101AX and all except one with helical gears. I can't name
the spur gear car by number because whenever a car is shoped it receives the
most recently overhauled pair of trucks and motors.
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In San Francisco many of the Market Street Railway cars used GE 247s, notably
286-305 and 942-943. They had spur gears and 16:76 gear ratio which made them
pretty slow.

At 06:37 AM 4/30/02 , you wrote:

-Val,you are right that all W2s had 40hp motors but probably the
majority were GE247,there were also some GE288,a lot of MV101 and
just a few BTH265,these latter were really the pick of the bunch,in
later years they had helical gears but previously they had spur
gears,as far as speed and acceleration went they were head and
shoulders above all the other motor types and had to be eased into
the eighth notch or the linebreaker would blow.The Metrovicks and GEs
could be real trundlers on cars with low wheels.The much loved
Clydes,W5s with EE controllers had GE247 motors but with 28" wheels
and they went like the proverbial clappers,they had very light
bodies.The motor type is on a little tag on the axle box cover,might
be worth checking out Peter Groom.Best Regards,Peter Bruce.-- In
TramsDownUnder@y..., Val Golding <notval@b...> wrote:

W2s used mostly MV101 and BTH265 motors but a few had GE247 

motors. All were

40hp.

At 01:16 PM 4/29/02 , you wrote:

--- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "citadis" <tramway@a...> wrote:
. . .  (correct

me if I'm wrong, the Milano has 30 or 35hp motors? W2's have

40hp)

The driving position and view on the Milan is far superior than

the

W2 so, overall, give me a Milano anyday.

Greg, the driver!

I hope that Milantram chimes in on this discussion, but in the
meantime: 

Don't/didn't some W2s have 35 hp motors?  I think that our
operational W2 has such motors and it seemed to me, as a
passenger, that its a little less peppy than I remember our first
W2 (now at a nearby trolley museum) to be.  Its been a while, so
maybe its my imagination, which has been over active recently.

I think that some Milanos have 40 hp motors (or its metric
equivalent).

Peter Groom

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