| Charlie,
If BRHS Bulletin No. 4 is correct, all of the F units, as delivered were entirely drawbar connected. Attached is a paragraph from Bulletin 4, at the top of page 14, that discussed the drawbars and their eventual removal. According to the author, Jim Sandrin, all of the F units were delivered with drawbars and the same road numbers on both A units with no suffix. He states that beginning in 1951, the railroad began to split up the four unit sets into A-B sets that were still drawbarred together. At that time, A and D suffixes were added to the A units. Possibly, the small one inch numbers on the B units were added at the same time or later when the As and Bs were also split up. Is this information incorrect? In my opinion, since the two A units in each four unit consist had the same road number with no suffix, I think all four units were drawbarred together and the railroad considered the four unit consist as one locomotive. As i understand the thinking at the time, the railroad unions considered each unit as a separate locomotive and wanted higher pay for operating multiple locomotives. The drawbars made them one locomotive subject to the standard pay scale.
Bill Barber Gravois Mills, MO
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