You can not beat the Westinghouse EP Brake, it really is a brake designed for Drivers. The Vacuum brake was designed to please the lawyers, the new 'Westcode' electrical air brake is designed to please engineers, but the old EP brake was a real Drivers brake, you could figuratively stop on a six-...
@TheIntercityhst No. They were built by BREL in Britain in the 1980s using a Sprinter type bodyshell on redundant Mark 1 underframes, and using electrical equipment recovered from the SR Class 74 Electro-Diesel. By using proven technology a very robust unit resulted, and they're quite good on fue...
Where the 31's running in multi with each other? Sounded like they were, do you know if they were using the low-level 'blue star' controls, or are these the locos that had a high-level sr-type 27-way jumper cable installed - I think one such loco is now at the EVR and runs with former Gat-Ex stoc...
You can not beat the Westinghouse EP Brake, it really is a brake designed for Drivers. The Vacuum brake was designed to please the lawyers, the new 'Westcode' electrical air brake is designed to please engineers, but the old EP brake was a real Drivers brake, you could figuratively stop on a six-...