Answer:
The answer should be: Companies replaced hand-operated brakes with air brakes on trains.
Explanation:
You have to think how hard it was for trains to stop with hand operated brakes. Trains go fast, and not stopping in time can be dangerous. Hope this helped :)
As I recall it was rolled-steel girders riveted together, probably from shipbuilding, together with steam-powered winches and an abundance of cheap steel. As opposed to European cathedrals erected with animal-powered winches and with more expensive forged iron bracing (one of the big cathedrals has a kind or iron corset to keep the walls from bursting outwards).
