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Why were handbrakes high (post Westinghouse)?
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<p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">They left the brakes high for the hump riders. In the pre-Westinghouse era, the handbrakes were placed high for the convenience of brakemen riding the car tops. But this need to control hand brakes for braking did not end with the conversion to automatic air brakes. The manual braking continued with hump yards prior to the advent of power retarders, and also manual braking was required in the downhill yards used for gravity switching. </span> </p>
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