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I've built O-scale British wagon kits by Parkside that featured brake gear that would have been operable had I remade a few parts - at least, the hand brake operation would have been possible. However, I would suggest that this is probably a case of "too much realism". You can get the effect of braking by using an inertia control system, and this would be easier and cheaper to do. I would guess that if it were possible to mass-produce models with this feature they would have been produced for the Japanese market - over there, they offer working HO scale Scharfenberg(sp?) autocouplers, as well as full suspension even on EMU power cars, along with a full set of lights - I'd guess if working airbrakes were possible, they'd have started fitting them!
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