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RAILROAD.NET - Air Brakes A further description of the most sophisticated version of the pure air brake is available at North American Freight Train Brakes written by Al Krug. www.railroad.net/articles/ railfanning/airbrakes/index.php - 35k - Cached - Similar pages SDRM Train Air Brake Description and History There is a lot more to train air brake systems than meets the eye. The first train brakes were very simple. To stop the train, you blew a certain www.sdrm.org/faqs/brakes.html - 19k - Cached - Similar pages Flashing rear-end device - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It also contains a toggle switch used to place the train's brakes into emergency from the rear end. In modern locomotives, the HOT is built into the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashing_rear-end_device - 17k - Cached - Similar pages [ More results from en.wikipedia.org ] Air brake (rail) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This deficiency could easily cause a runaway train. Straight air brakes are When the train brakes are applied during normal operations, the engineer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_brake_(rail) - 33k - Cached - Similar pages