Railroad accidents were frequent and deadly. Westinghouse's 1869 version, the straight or direct air brake, used air hoses to connect the cars. When the engineer turned on the brakes, air pressure ...

Canadian Pacific has signed a three-year contract for Anchor Brake shoes with Watertown, N.Y.-based New York Air Brake Corp. The Anchor Brake ... Inc., a manufacturer of M-601 hose blanks. Premtec has ...

In the most recent robbery on January 13, a group of 11 suspects — 10 of whom were in the country illegally — cut an air brake hose from a BNSF freight train as it rolled through a secluded ...

In a Jan. 13 robbery, suspects cut an air brake hose on a BNSF freight train traveling through a remote section of Arizona and made off with more than 1,900 pairs of unreleased Nikes worth more ...