My Footplate Padre articles over these many years have touched on many aspects of railway working and life on the railways. Today it is how the brakes work on a train, the Westinghouse air brakes.

Sometimes, the brake on the train's wheels do not release, and when the locomotive starts moving, this causes friction and eventually smoke rises. Passengers travelling on the train often panic ...

A Chicago Transit Authority train heading toward downtown crashed ... and the CTA's decision to disable an automatic track brake application. It also noted fallen leaves and a “a black gel ...

More than seven months after an 11-year-old boy died of head injuries after a toy train overturned at Elante Mall in Chandigarh, an engineer of the UT Engineering Department has found that the working ...

Federal investigators say a high speed limit, a disabled braking system and slippery tracks are to blame for a 2023 Chicago train crash that ... an automatic track brake application delayed ...

If the compressor were to break-down, the brakes would start to apply as soon as the air pressure fell. The driver controls the braking by gradually releasing the air pressure in normal circumstances ...

It noted an “aggressive braking maneuver” when the train was ordered to go from 54 miles per hour (87 kilometers per hour) to zero instead of a gradual deceleration and the CTA’s decision to disable ...

Investigators Blame 2023 Chicago Train Crash on Brakes and Slick Tracks CHICAGO (AP) — Federal investigators say an “aggressive” deceleration, a disabled braking system and slippery tracks ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Federal investigators say an “aggressive” deceleration, a disabled braking system and slippery tracks are to blame for a 2023 Chicago train crash that left dozens of people ...

A Chicago Transit Authority train heading toward downtown crashed into a slow-moving snow plow that was on the rails on Nov. 16, 2023. Thirty-eight people were hurt, including the train’s operator.