Railway air brake

Okay kiddo, have you ever seen a train? Trains are just like really really long buses that travel on tracks instead of roads. They transport heavy things like coal, oil, and other heavy cargo across long distances.

Now since trains are really really heavy, they need something special to help them slow down or stop. That something special is called the railway air brake. This brake system works by pushing air through a series of pipes and hoses to activate the brakes on each of the train’s cars.

You see, the train has a locomotive car and multiple other cars that are connected together. Each of these individual cars has their own brakes, but they are all connected by air hoses to the locomotive.

When the engineer in the train's locomotive wants to slow down or stop the train, they reduce the pressure of air within the brake pipes, which activates the air brakes on each car down the train. That way, each brake on each car is applied at the same time to make sure the train can stop safely and efficiently.

So that’s how the railway air brake works. It’s a pretty smart system that helps keep everyone safe when the train needs to slow down or stop!