[PRCo] Re: Fwd: EDB and such

[Edward H. Lybarger]

I'd hardly call it a "claim" that 1648 was lost in the Homewood CH fire.
It's one of those indisputable facts, and supporting records exist.

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[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Fred
Schneider
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 3:07 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Fwd: EDB and such


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