Hot Water posted:Apparently someone at the 2926 group is confused.
Or -- possibly -- the person affiliated with that group and who spoke to our good friend Eliot was posing as one who knows air brakes. It is tempting to some who are in the inner circle of steam engine operating and preservation groups, to pose as experts. On the other hand, perhaps this person does indeed "know the air." Without more information about that person's background, we do not know if he knows something specific to the 2926 that would back up his claim. I would hate to think that someone might try to B.S. a good man like Eliot.
Those of us who have actually used manually-lapped automatic brake valves as Engineers on real trains are rightly puzzled by the claim that there is anything about the 2926 air brakes that would be incompatible with PTC. To the best of my knowledge, 8-ET air brake equipment is superbly well-suited to both freight and passenger use, and was used with great success by Santa Fe Railway.
Perhaps, if there is anyone on the Forum from the 2926 group who could elaborate, we could understand this more fully.
