Show time of stopping a train at a recent convention of airbrake men an interesting report was present d showing how the distance required tor for the stopping of trains had been reduced by the new high speed brake A train running eighty miles an hour was stopped in 2 feet by the high peed speed brake at pounds where ordinary pressure of seventy pound pounds took exactly halt half a mile to bring it to a stand other train speeds and reductions duct ions in stopping distances were thesel these fifty miles an hour from to feet fifty five miles 1030 1 feet sixty five miles I 1 to 1300 feet seventy miles 2 to 1530 1 feet sev L enty five miles 2 to 1840 1 feet |