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Trains Magazine 1967 August Shay Case for the T1 Once upon a 4-8-4
Trains Magazine 1967 August
August 1967Volume 27 Number 10
NEWS ------
PROFESSIONAL ICONOCLAST -5
STEAM NEWS PHOTOS -8
RAILROAD NEWS PHOTOS10
ONCE UPON A 4-8-4 -18
CASE FOR AMERICAN STEAM 22
AND THE CASE FOR THE T1 - 27
STRANGER THAN FICTION STEAM 29
SHAY: FOLLY WORTH A FORTUNE 32
Railway post office 50Second section 54
Of books and trains 52Running extra 54
Interchange 57
COVER: Western Maryland 6, world's largest Shay as well as the last. Collection of P. E. Percy.
156 MPH.: HOW PROPHETIC?
SLASHING through Princeton Junction, N. J. , DOT test-car train nears a peak of 156 mph.
THE four stainless-steel electric multiple railroad cars poised on westbound Track 3 at County Tower, N. J., on the Pennsylvania at 10:38 a.m. [EST] on a blustery May 24, 1967, scarcely looked capable of what the U. S. Department of Transportation press release promised: "Run west on No. 3 track at 150 mph." DOT-owned cars T-1 through T-4 were simply Budd Silverliners (an electric version of the Pioneer III 85-footer introduced back in 1956) minus most of their seats, heavily instrumented for tests, regeared, and fitted with ever so slightly streamlined noses and modified shocks. They were standing on welded rail beneath a heavier-than-average catenary. From their tread brake shoes to their elbow pantographs, the cars looked ready to load Philadelphia commuters rather than contest America's second highest rail speed (after NYC's 183.85 mph jet-RDC run of July 1966).
But the speedometer in a vestibule of rear car T-1 which we compared with our watch said otherwise:
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