Brakes



Live Steam equipment can be built with the following types of brakes.


 * Air brakes
 * Vacuum brakes
 * Steam brakes
 * Dynamic braking
 * Mechanical brakes

Mix and Match
Mike Venezia wrote:


 * All my freight cars (20 +) have 1 truck air and 1 truck vacuum and this gives me a redundant brake system and lets us use different locos to pull them. I started doing this years ago and am very glad I did.