It may not be that fascinating in the grand scheme of things, but a discussion over the weekend concerning the brakes on Shaker Heights Rapid Transit car 18 (shown above in a photo from around 2009) revealed that I was missing brake information on several of the
eight preserved Cleveland center-door cars. However it appears that these cars all had SME brakes with M18A brake valves, so I've updated the various cars on the list with that information. (The exceptions are
024, rebuilt as a line car by GCRTA, and
031, modernized with a Peter Witt door configuration by SHRT and later rebuilt as a wire greaser - anyone know for sur eon those two?) I'm always looking to fill in blanks like this. Anyone know what an M18A brake valve is? Other than the Shaker cars the only examples on the PNAERC list seem to be
a few cars in California and one "
trailer puller" in St. Louis.
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