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[Attachment(s) from Philip Weibler included below]
Hello Bill, Hol, and All - The easy way to spot 'drawbars-or-couplers': if the end has a coupler it will have the standard double stirrup step (just like below the cab door) and a pair of vertical grab irons on the side above it. If the unit has a drawbar on the end there will be no stirrup, no grabirons. Compare this FT shot with Hol's photos. PAW Hol, Thanks for sharing the photos of the passenger F's in service in their original colors, particularly pulling the CZ. Seeing them brings up a question that I have never seen accurately answered. Were those three CZ F3 consists coupled with drawbars between each unit or did they have couplers? Along the same lines, were the four unit FTs coupled with drawbars between each unit or were there couplers between the two B units? What other Q F unit consists had drawbars? Finally, did the Q convert some units to couplers in later years. I don't recall seeing any definitive discussion about drawbars in the old F unit Bulletin. Bill Barber __._,_.___ Attachment(s) from Philip Weibler | View attachments on the web 1 of 1 Photo(s) Posted by: Philip Weibler <pawnbaw@sbcglobal.net> __,_._,___ |