I've been going over the 6-ET brake system blue prints and I'm finding that our locomotive has different pieces. For instance, there is a valve (either a feed or reduction valve) attached directly to the automatic brake valve. The reason I am looking into this is, we are missing some piping that was cut out of our locomotive when a contractor installed "special affects" plumbing into the cab (not our doing!). I we have no photos of the brake piping in the cab prior to the time we started working on the locomotive.

Are there any variations to the 6-ET system that might explain the slight differences?


Gary Rodriguez
President/CEO

San Antonio Railroad Heritage Museum
"Friends of the SP 794"

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Does it look like this?



There is a version of the H-6 pipe bracket that has the feed valve mounted directly to it. This one is on Southern 401 at the Monticello Railway Museum.

Other than the lack of a separate feed valve pipe bracket and the associated pipe to the H-6 pipe bracket, everything else is the same.