| Show Time of Stopping a Train At At a recent recent convention of ot airbrake i imen men an an interesting report was presented presented present present- ed showing how bow the distance required for the stopping of trains had been iI f fA reduced by the new speed high brake A train running eighty miles an hour bour 1 was stopped in 2240 feet by the high high- speed brake at pounds where ordinary ordinary or or- pressure of seventy pounds took exactly half a mile to it bring toa to toa a stand Other train speeds and reductions reductions re reo in stopping distances were 4 these Fifty miles mlle an hour from O Oto to feet five fifty-five miles mUes 1030 feet 1 t sixty-five sixty miles 1635 to 1300 feet j seventy m miles les 2010 to 1530 feet sev five enty-five miles mlles 2 2295 95 to 1840 fee feet r fJ |
