Rail roads and their tracks.

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The 4014 through Central Illinois this week. Love those brake pads.
Beautiful photos!

If that's all it has for brakes, I can see why it needs an accompanying Diesel with regenerative (?) braking to meet modern safety standards.

Can the steam pistons provide braking?
 
   / Rail roads and their tracks.
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Resent B boy pics.
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   / Rail roads and their tracks. #3,684  
Are those brake shoes a composite material and or a cast iron material?
 
   / Rail roads and their tracks. #3,686  
Beautiful photos!

If that's all it has for brakes, I can see why it needs an accompanying Diesel with regenerative (?) braking to meet modern safety standards.

Can the steam pistons provide braking?
Why not put dynamic grids on the tender, fed by the drivers turning that big electric motor in the cab?

:)
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Bruce
 
   / Rail roads and their tracks. #3,687  
I have RR experience when I worked for about 5 different car repair shops over the years as a welder. (ak carmen) This thread is about anything associated with RR's.
I worked at a sugar factory , used to move all the rail cars across the road to the pull line , always picked up broken coupler pins to use for drawbar used to find all kinds of goodies laying out in the yard
 
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I worked at a sugar factory , used to move all the rail cars across the road to the pull line , always picked up broken coupler pins to use for drawbar used to find all kinds of goodies laying out in the yard
I'd guess you mean knuckle pins?
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Don't even need the knuckle pin if you keep the knuckle closed.....saw that many times
 

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