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Originally Posted by wdfifteen View Post
....Do those 400 mph trains use the wheels for braking or do they have some kind of brake shoe that drops down and contacts the track?
They use dynamic braking... like regenerative braking on EV's to slow. Brakes the motors to brake the wheels.

They have disc brakes to finally stop the trains when they are slow.... say 10 mph.
Old 02-09-2020, 05:19 PM
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