timz wrote:I doubt very seriously whether any MP 54's ever attained 80 MPH, let alone being scheduled to run that fast. Even with the roller bearings that were applied to some of the cars during a remodeling, the ride in those cars, even as they approached 50 MPH, would have been brutal. Additionally, they tended to burn out motors and journal boxes during periods of sustained "high speed" running.JimBoylan wrote:During the early 1940s, some MP-54s got roller bearings so they could run as Clockers or New York locals at 80 m.p.h.No idea if they ran at 80, but timetable limit wasn't that high.
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