[PRCo] Fwd: EDB and such

[Fred Schneider]

Here is Hamley's response.  He claims that 1648 was lost in the  
Homewood fire.   It was not in the list I published in my book ...  
the only 1600 I listed was 1629.   Perhaps I'm guilty.

Begin forwarded message:

>
> You're getting into minutia with which I am not intimately familiar.
>
> The 1200s were the only cars with spring applied, air released  
> brakes, so one would expect those to be bastards.
>
> Various (W) documents suggest that the EDB applications on various  
> properties commenced c. 1943/44 with single cars here and there,  
> then into a more widely distributed pattern just after WWII.  Thus  
> it would make sense that the 1600s would have come that way.  I  
> think 1443 was the first PRCo car so equipped.
>
> As for the various brake valve applications to the 1600s, it's  
> clear that the 2nd round of "interurban" conversions (1615-1619,  
> 1644-1648) had something to do with it.  1644 was un-converted  
> before long, but 1648 to the best of my knowledge remained an  
> interurban until the Homewood fire got it.  I would have expected  
> to see it have the same fitment as the other interurban 1600s.
>
> You've now exhausted my knowledge of the subject.
>
> DH