[PRCo] Re: Fwd: EDB and such

[Boris Cefer]

It is hard to ask DH any questions via his classified e-mail...
What info is available on the mechanical brake of cars 1615...1619 and 
1645...1648, if any?

B

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 9:07 PM
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