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Show Time of Stopping a Train. At a recent convention of airbrake-men airbrake-men an interesting report was presented present-ed showing how the distance required for the stopping of trains had been reduced by the new high-speed brake. A train running eighty miles an hour was stopped in 2,240 feet by the highspeed high-speed brake at 110 pounds, where ordinary or-dinary pressure of seventy pounds took exactly half a mile to bring It to a stand. Other train speeds and reductions re-ductions In stopping distances were these: Fifty miles an hour, from 840 to 700 feet; fifty-five miles, 1,030 feet; sixty-five miles, 1,635 to 1,300 feet; seventy miles, 2,010 to 1,530 feet; seventy-five miles, 2,295 to 1,840 feet. |
