Google has not been my friend this evening, and the worst of the results was that "timetable collection" took me to collection times for trash. Critiques of my collection aside, that was NOT what I was looking for. And even the website for the National Association of Timetable Collectors was rather sparse on the how-to aspect of collecting. Thus I come here in the hope of answers or guidance.

During 37 years as a frontline #Paramedic, model building and model railroading was my destresser from the difficult calls of the profession. Now retired, my profession has crept into my hobby.
Just completed this N Scale (1:160) model of my old Ambulance, that I spent many years responding in.

How high were the brake wheels? I would have thought they'd be at a height comfortable for the "brakeman" to be able to turn them. However, in the many pictures I've seen, brake wheels seem to be at all kinds of height. Especially where the brakeman is standing. Like on the top of a house car. I've seen pictures where the wheel is barely above his foot - and others at his waist. And were the variations due to the RR? The location in the U.S.? The car manufacturer? Or is it that all I'm seeing is models that have no real basis in a prototype.