Show STOPPING A TRAIN important discovery that lias just been made some important discoveries have just been made in europe says the new york herald how to stop a train i hen an accident is impending nas long been a problem many plans have been sug but almost all have been considered faulty for the reason that they call for a stoppage in such a case the shock would be so great that the carriages between the engine and the rear of the train would be smashed to atoms and their occupants crushed to death evidently therefore a gradual stoppage is imperative an admirable plan which a train to slow down gradually has recently been tested at the railroad station in dresden it is extremely simple and has been round to work well no intricate machinery is required and the cost must be small A track is laid the rails of which sink or slope arnd bally into a bed of sand As the train passes over this sand its wheels meet with an resistance which soon becomes so great that they are obliged to stop the however is so gradual that there is no rough shock the greater the swiftness of the train and the headier the load the more immediate is the stoppage no damage then ia possible cither as regards the train or the passengers an experiment which was recently tried with a freight train clearly the usefulness of this very practical and simple plan |