Re: Brake staff /cylinder confusion -- 1900 C&S stock car at museum.

Posted by Chris Walker on Feb 19, 2017; 3:01am
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Brake-staff-cylinder-confusion-and-mismatched-trucks-tp3464p7731.html

Jim Courtney wrote

May I suggest that the stop could have been as simple as a second piece of chain, attached to the end of the brake rod where the chain to the brake staff is attached, but leading to a fixed point, perhaps on the bolster or the frame end beam.

I really like that idea, a simple but elegant solution to the "stop" problem!

I would strongly caution against imagineering an unfounded solution in favour of omitting the unknown rather than providing a non-prototype solution.  

John, I fully understand your angst, I had the same in '94 building my Ph1 Coal car.  Just how different was the brake arrangement from the Ph1 or is that also an unknown?