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Danbury Railway Museum 2005

Brake wheel 2
Brake wheel 2
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  • (Anonymously) (Private Message)
    04/06/07 18:13

    Wow. Interesting notes about brakemen. Nice design.


    Rich


  • ooO(PETER)Ooo Premium user Australia (Private Message)
    09/10/05 23:27

    They turn this to apply the brakes?

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    On today's railroads, they are just parking brakes. Before the invention of the air brake by George Westinghouse, brakemen had to go from car to car manually applying the brakes. A very dangerous job. In fact, the statistical life span of a brakeman of that era was only 2-1/2 years.