. Brake tests; a report of a series of road tests of brakes on passenger equipment cars made at Absecon, New Jersey, in 1913 . Fig. 98. EMERGENCY STOPS—TWELVE CAR BREAKAWAY advantage of electric control is shown by the shorter stops in the lower portion of the diagram. 178. Fig. 99. EMERGENCY STOPS—No. 2 CLASP BRAKE. At the higher braking powers the train stop is longer than the breakaway stops. The actual braking poweron the train as a whole is lower when the locomotive is attached than when detached from the cars. 179

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