Hand tool is used to track the implementation of small amounts of repair-work travel, do not require intervention of a mechanized rail equipment. This type of tool should track include manual shifter, leveling devices, bashmakosbrasyvateli, etc. Most important of these tools has a manual shifter, which is used for manual transfer decentralized shooter-type P50 and P65. On the functions of some of the tools on the name is sometimes difficult to guess. Take, for example, tools with funny names – and bashmakosbrasyvatel shoe.

These tools and travel will be the protagonists of this story. In 1857, Germany had established the braking device, characterized by compactness, versatility, efficiency, and has received wide application in all the tracks world. More information is housed here: Hunter Pond. This device was the hand brake shoe, which was mounted on a rail in front of moving cars and has a significant inhibitory effect when hit by a wheel. Now the shoe is metal structure, consisting of thick skid 6 – 8 mm and a height of pads 120 – 125 mm, which is connected with two runners rivets. Originally brake shoes are used only in order to completely stop rolling stock. Gradually, it became necessary to train could reduce its rate to a specific value and then move on. Problem solved only at the beginning of 1900 in the invention of the so-called bashmakosbrasyvateley. Use the tool significantly increased the reliability of the control speed of cars. For the first time to stop cars with brake shoes bashmakosbrasyvatelyami carried out in Europe. Now bashmakosbrasyvatel used for dropping a double-breasted rail shoes on the railroad .