Nostalgia & History > Anyone got Penn Central Eastern Region timetable 2?

Effective 1 December 1968 -- if you do have one,
does it by chance have page 224 withput
General Order 216 pasted onto it? What
was the maximum speed for Metroliners
(i.e. column A trains)?

Maximum was 115-120 after that
general order -- was it 110 until then?
(The GO was eff 24 March 1969.)

Hope this helps!

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Timz - This post answers a question I've had for years.  PC established a 2 1/2 hr NY-WAS Metroliner around that time and I had wondered how it could make the schedule running at 110 MPH.  I was unaware of the speed increase, which was a real difference maker here.  Regrettably in Jan of about 1970, max. speed was reduced to 100 due to track conditions, and recovery did not take place until the Northeast Corridor Improvement Program started to show results in about 1981.
Andy

timz Wrote:
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> Effective 1 December 1968 -- if you do have one,
> does it by chance have page 224 withput
> General Order 216 pasted onto it? What
> was the maximum speed for Metroliners
> (i.e. column A trains)?
>
> Maximum was 115-120 after that
> general order -- was it 110 until then?
> (The GO was eff 24 March 1969.)

Thanks for the pics -- that's exactly what I was after,
and was not expecting to get.

The increase was worth maybe one minute to
the Metroliner (the nonstop started on 2 April).
No doubt the on-time record for the nonstop
was well under 50%.