JeffersonLeeEng wrote:Current NHSL schedule only has a smattering of Limited and Express runs due to construction of the station at Ithan Ave (near Villanova Stadium) and other trackwork up and down the line. It's pretty much slow going right now...so yeah...
Also, due to accidents and that one major crash at 69th Street, they've really limited the max speed lately...
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Just for comparison, I checked Ron De Graw's
Pig & Whistle* for speeds of the Bullet cars in bygone days:
1930-1933 - Limited (Bryn Mawr and Bridgeport only) 16 minutes end-to-end; Express 19minutes;
1943-1953 - Express 21 min. northbound, 22 min. southbound.
The first Bullets delivered could do 90 mph, reduced to 80 mph for the remainder of the order, the first ones being reduced accordingly, and there were very few speed reductions for curves, etc. The author could be heard lamenting the speed reductions of later years.
* Bulletin 140, Central Electric Railfans' Association, ISBN 978-0-915348-40-4.