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| locobrakes = Schleifer air brakes <br /> Westinghouse air brakes (refit) ...eft the factory equipped with Schleifer [[railway air brake|compressed air brakes]]; these only braked the engine, however. Later, all the locomotives were f ...

...xle, nevertheless it did not have good riding qualities. The ''Schleifer'' brakes were later converted to [[Westinghouse brake]]s. [[Category:Railway locomotives introduced in 1889]] ...

...rzenberg.jpg|center|300px|Steam locomotive 94 2105 on the turntable of the railway museum at Schwarzenberg in the [[Ore Mountains]] (2 June 2001/photo by geme | Brakes: || colspan="3" align="center" | Steam brake <br/> Later fitted with [[Wes ...

...marginally from one another. Eleven locomotives of the second batch, with railway numbers 858 – 868 (new: 1001–1011) were built by [[Wiener Neustädter Lokomo ...xamples were also left behind in [[Belgium]] and were grouped by the state railway, [[Nationale Maatschappij der Belgische Spoorwegen/Société Nationale des Ch ...

|Brakes: || colspan="3" align="center" | Westinghouse [[compressed-air brake]] ...left in Poland later went into the [[Polskie Koleje Państwowe|Polish State Railway]], PKP, and were given numbers OKl101-01 to 11. The Belgian ''[[État-Belge] ...

* [[Railway air brake]]s or [[air brake (road vehicle)|road brakes]] reservoir overpressure (common): 90–120&nbsp;psig ...

{{Short description|Concept in railway engineering}} ...minimum radius of a curve is one parameter in the design of [[Railroad car|railway vehicles]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://worldtraderef.com/WTR_site/Rail_Cars/G ...

From 1924 FWD also traded as [[Hardy Rail Motors]], seeking railway applications for the FWD chassis as a light [[:en:shunting locomotive|shunt The brakes were typical for the 1920s but would be considered rudimentary today, espec ...

*'''[[Rack railway]]''' – *'''[[Track gauge]]''' – Spacing of the rails on a railway track ...

...nd [[redundancy (engineering)|redundancy]] (assuming there are two or more brakes).<!--missing batteries may be present to allow the elevator to return to th ...counterweight is located in the hoist-way and is carried along a separate railway system; as the car goes up, the counterweight goes down, and vice versa. Th ...

* Friction devices, such as [[brakes]] or [[clutch]]es ...urnal|last1=Heron|first1=C. A.|date=1906|title=Electrical Calculations for Railway Motors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b5A4AQAAMAAJ&dq=%22The+activit ...

...you need to see it in time to stop.''' Assuming you have good tires, good brakes, and dry pavement: At 55 mph, it takes about 400 feet to react and bring th ...e time from the first sighting of an obstacle until the driver applies the brakes, is an important component of stopping sight distance. ... The results indi ...