Running board
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A running board or footboard is a narrow step fitted for passenger transport under the side doors of a compartment train, tram, car, or truck.
A locomotive engineer stands on the running board of a SAR Class NG G16 Garratt steam locomotive on the Welsh Highland Railway
Toyota 4Runner with running board
Vintage tram, with red footboard visible running along the lower tram-side underneath the three central doors
Woman standing next to a car's running board
Brakeman
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A brakeman is a rail transport worker whose original job was to assist the braking of a train by applying brakes on individual wagons. The advent of through brakes, brakes on every wagon which the dri
A Santa Fe Railroad brakeman atop a train that has paused at Cajon, California, to cool its brakes after descending Cajon Pass in March 1943.
Brakeman's cab (left) on a Prussian compartment coach
During the early days of railroading, one of the most deadly jobs in America was that of brakeman, who worked from the top of moving trains in all weather