Re: STA 381
Greg King
Wednesday, October 10, 2001 9:37 AM
Bob,
It was a pity about that car having "conventional"
trucks, they were in fact modified H car trucks with clasp brakes (ie two per
wheel) and 65hp motors, they certainly could get up and go. I had the pleasure
of operating the car when it came down from the museum for the golden Jubilee in
79, it really flew, but then again so do the H's with a normal speed of around
40-45mph, they have been clocked at 50. 381 was nice with it's big seperate cab
and "dutch doors", if memory serves, WGB turned up the day i was running the
beast for the first time (I think I ran it on about 3 seperate days for the
whole shift) we also ran the very nice F1 type and the museum's W2 294, which
also performed exceedinly well, that was one great week.
I know you can be acerbic at times, but...Nice shot WTF is it?Very modern looking body but very old fashioned looking trucks. Shame it doesn't have PCC trucks under it to give it some legs or is it a goer?Bob Murphy
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