Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1914 — New Brake for Fast Trains. [ARTICLE]

New Brake for Fast Trains.

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers has had demonstrated a new electro-pneumatic brake, which makes short stops possible for modern high-speed limiteds. A train of 12 steel passenger cars with a modem locomotive weighs 1,000 tons, is 1,000 feet long, and when running at 60 miles an hour possess a momentum equal to a blast of dynamite sufficient to blow the entire train 120 feet into the air. In the test of the new brake a train of 12 cars was stopped as follows: From 30 miles an hour, in 200 feet; from 60 miles an hour, in 1,000 feet, and from 80 miles an hour, in 2,000 feet. “