Brakes

Brake Types

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

• Air brakes
• Vacuum brakes
• Steam brakes
• Dynamic braking
• Mechanical brakes

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  John Kelso's AAR 50 ton truck brake rigging. Photo by John Kelso.

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  Allen Models of Nevada new Arch Bar Truck. Photo by Steve Alley, 2 December 2015.

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.

See also

• Brake valve
• Brake shoe

References

• Karlson Model Products

External Links

• Non-metalic brake lining, McMaster-Carr
• Bettendorf freight truck with brake rigging, Railroad Warehouse
• "Cast iron trucks get new shoes"
• "Berkshire tender Brake cylinders", Chaski.org
• "Remote controlled brakes", Chaski.org
• Wabtec Freight Catalog
• "Brake Shoe Kits for 1" Scale RR Sup. Trks", Chaski.org
• "Brake Valve", Chaski.org
• "Tender Brakes", Chaski.org
• "Brake Shoe Machining", Chaski.org
• "Train brakes for the little Mogul", Chaski.org
• "Tender Brakes on the 2-4-0", DiscoverLiveSteam.com