[CBQ] Re: DD Cab Cars (was Cutting out brakes?)

[William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com>]

Steve,

I wonder if FRA and the folks currently running Metra realize that  
those cab cars were built for a million pound buff load as compared  
to the 800,000 pounds spec. to which later cars are being built.?  
Indeed, they are more crash worthy, than anything else running today!  
The only other vehicles built with a comparable buff load are the  
locomotives.

Bill Barber
Gravois Mills, MO

On Nov 7, 2009, at 2:58 AM, CBQ@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> Re: Cutting out brakes?
> Posted by: "STEVEN HOLDING" sholding@sbcglobal.net   copivd
> Fri Nov 6, 2009 7:48 am (PST)
>
>
>
> Thanks Ryan Just 4 more working days after today
> I think the problem with the old Q Sub cars is they are not FRA  
> crash worthy. Course built long before the FRA showed up and have  
> lasted and are still very serviceable. Just not modern and high  
> tech like the rest of METRA junk we try and run. Nothing like an  
> old fart to keep you going
> SJH



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