Show time of stopping a train al at a recent convention of airbrake men an interesting report was present ed showing how the distance required for the of trains had been reduced by the new high speed brake A train running eighty mile miles s an hour was stopped in 2240 feet by the high speed brake at HO pounds where ordinary pressure of seventy pounds took exactly edit a mile to bring it to a stand other train speeds and reductions duct ions in stopping distances were these fifty miles an hour from to feet fifty five miles 1030 feet sixty five lIvo miles 1635 to 1300 feet seventy miles 2010 to 1630 1530 feet BOV sev enty five miles 2295 to 1840 feet |