I’ve been wondering about this question for a long time. Every single car in a train has its own brakes, so the train should stop in the same distance that it takes one car to stop. Why is this not the case? Or does each car take a mile to stop on its own?
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People are saying how cars have tires and your talking about train cars, even with all those wheels, they have to brake at the right speed, because a train wheel with wheel slip is basically on ice, and has next to no grip, add all those cars that weight more than an actual vroom vroom car, and the train has a hard time stopping all that weight quickly.
Tldr super heavy train cars can’t stop the wheels immediately, because it may as well be on ice.
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