Show TWO lllES I MINUTE ON ONE All I Remarkable Adhievemejjtof Brussels aNew Electric Railroad tear i While railroad operators are boastIng boast-Ing of making their stty mUe an hour an Eng1sh inventor has quietly built a 1nc o rairoad on which trans rUn regularly at the rate of one hundred miles a hour and frequently attain a sneed of from two to three mile a minute And 1 Is a lrctcl achHN mcnt with fulsized ears cpalle of carrying 100 passengers each St practIcal prac-tIcal indeed that F B Behr the en gnee and inventor has just formed 3 sndicte in London fo consruct lag a lIne on his new system between Liverpool and Manchester He calls it very truly the Lightning Express nalwa I will regularly male the distance ot about thirty miles in twenty minutes including stops BetWeen Be-tWeen stations the cars will freruently attain a Sp dot two miles a minute The charact r of the new road Is as strange as It hchlevemcnts The trains run on a single rail set several feet above ground on trestlework and the motive power Is furnished by electric Its The cars somewhat resemble a big oblong bun turned upside kiowa wih wheels set thick along t part that answers for the bun crease and hedged about with guide heeels s that it cannot jump tne truck along Whlch it is propeled WONDERS OF THE NEW R09D York on the Lherool > Man ccer toad will begin within a few months The first line of the kind built by Mr Bebj 1n Tervuene near Brus eels Belgium has been In operation country rOadways of Wlllch there are I I several through the park at Tervueren In order to maintain such a seed it I would be fatal to have to slow down I for a crossing Accordingly Mr Behr Iha rigged up a marvelous drawbridge I I for roads ThIs drawbridge Is worked automatically so that when the tan 1 apPIoaches the two seton of the bridge parting in the middle fly up alowing the train to pass at full speed I Mr Benr expects in the future to use his ne Invention not onlr for short distances between densely populated II cities but for long distances through the country where t1e passenger traf tic Is large I his line now projected from Liveroul to Manchester is en I trl satisfactory think of the possibilities possi-bilities for still longer ones For In I stance a travelnS man might go to I bed in the evening in a train in New York and wake up fresh for business I in Chicago the net mornitg I would I be perfecily feasible to go to Florida Jeect I i I 1jfr1 i iJriKa I Y WI f oto 7 t c Ifor I I I ThB ONO BAIILROAD AND ITS INVENTOR for som months und has been found to be remarkabl successful I crosses brides and roads 1 circles around short cures i climbs steep grades it enters and lees its denote by means of what are probably the most curious switch arrangements In the world and it Jives its passengers a new sens tona sensation of a speed of propulsion pro-pulsion hitherto unattained II any con trivnfe Inenfed by man for the transportation of passengers Indeed it is said that the curious lenthise arrangements of the seats within the cars are to prevent the full effect of the appearance of swiftness on the passengers 11 Behr says that a man who sit and looks straight out of a car window Instead of looking ahead as he would if he sat wIth one shoulder shoul-der to the window as In American cars doe not get such Hn allmlu impression of terrific speed Mr Behr has been quietly operating the trains OI this new line in Belgium for some time past and he has put itt it-t the severest and most exacting tests such as operating the trains under un-der a speed of TO miles an hour around sharp curves and of dropping them down sleep grades without any diminu ton of elolty The Tervuerne road is three miles long built in the shape of an eUDse That is to say there are two straight side joined br curved end the curves having a radius ofltlOO feet The track proper Is a tout trestle laid bpon ground sleeper Upon top the trestle there is the sinlcoearin rail and at either sIde of It lower down a guide rail HOW ThE ROD IS CO SlnUCTED That is not so very wonderful but you cannot say 10 much of the car itself I Is a sort of doubledecker about sixty feet long and dual lengthwise length-wise a well as vertically throughout its loner half This double lower portion por-tion houses the main whe1s the guide wheels and the eleciric motors which receive their power from a conductor 1 laid along the track There are four of thee motor weighing three tons I each They are attached to four of the I eight carriage wheels With COO revolutions revo-lutions per minute each motor develops 150 110rse power That gives a speed of 100 miles an hour which can easily be doubled Beldl the eight carriage wheels there are thirttwo guide wheels which run I upon tH guide rails and preserve the equilibrium hrn even at three miles TIe fbmieor 1 a minute there is no possibility of do raUmlnt I The upper half the car proper seat j 100 passengers and has beside com I partments for the elemrklan and con ducIJr In the electricians cabin there are two air brakes one for slacking speed the other for actually stopping the train Elcctrlcity come from a power house I in the Terueren park which has a capacity of about IOlO horse power The I dynamos have a working trengh of I 750 volts Electricity Is fed t the 1n for a Sundays outing leaving Saturday Satur-day night and coming back on Monday morning and according to Mr Behr this could be accomplished with even great safety than that attained in the swifrunninS doubletrack trains of today COST OF SIKGLERAIL LINES The question of cost of outlay and possible returns Is of course crucial Mr Behr Is frankness itself there He sets down categorically estimates off of-f t cost at from 50000 to 100000 the mile but asserts that the operating expenses ex-penses are so moderate that the single rail lines can carry passengers at a less rte than Is now charged upon fast I trainS and still pay dividends upon their capital He says too that he see I no likelihood of interfering with freight I traffic nor even of monopolizing the passenger business What he advises Is the construction of sillerai systems sys-tems along some of the great trunk lines possibly In connection with them so that Impatient travelers or timid ones 01 those under stress of business may be whisked away as if by magic leaving the Pullmans and vestibule trains to those who have luck and leisure leis-ure GLERAIL EVOLUTION IDEA The genesis of this Ternls line is I most interesting I Is a much an evo luton as it may work a revolution Various and sundry ether singleral I lines have existed in various and sundry I i sun-dry riarts of the world Some ran by 1 mule power some by steam power The I I Teryueren line is however the first to run by harnessed lightning Its imme diat prototype is the singlerai trestle line running from Listowel to Daily brennan in Ireland which Is In itself somewhat notable Its length Is nine miles and a hal it has run for eleven yearsodd wIthout having a car wheel once leave the track or a passenger or cmnlloyec make a claim against it for I damages This though i is operated I hr steam and runs twenty miles an hournot an aounding rat of speed hut a very efficient one unde the clr cumstances I lIr Behl built i as later lIe built the Belgian experimental line Th Listo wel mode wa a line put up by a French engineer out in Algeria At first ho built 1 oubletrack line out on the ground hut the sandstorms covered cover-ed UIJ his tracks faster than he could uncover them so he had recourse to trctJ construction along which cars were drawn IJ mules after the manner of boats on a canal Happening to see I 11 Behr decided that It was a gOOd scheme and proceeded to Imitate It upon up-on the Irish coat From steam and twenty miles an hour the transition has been more natural than rapid He I has gone slowly and surely to the end that later he might be a sure of helping help-ing the world to go vary fast POSSiBILITIES OF iNVENTION i Speculation Is Idle but prospects I AT A DEPOTSBOWING METHOD OF SWITCHING by a copper cable properlY connected to the steel contact rail which is car rle on chln4 Insulators made fast to the sleepers This Contact ral feed especial collectors which in turn pass the power 10 the motors This line has sharper curves and steeper gradients than are likely to occur on any commercial railway and it has itself been most seCeh ant impartaly tested under the ayes of commlsfoners specially appointee by the governments or Belgium and Russia Rus-sia So i is worth while to hear what those bigwIg ofcial gentlemen say o it A singleri line on trestles with a bearIng surface for the vertical pressure a sure of the rolling stock and supplied with guide wheels to resist lateral pressure offers fewer chances of tie raUment than the ordinary railway says one A second comes In like an echo A slngieral line wit curves of the radius common upon express routes can be traveled over much more rapidly amid more safely than an ori 11ry track ClRISITIES OF THE NEW LINE One of the curiosIUC of the Ter ycren line Is the method of crsii g i a such as these invite i Singlerai lines may help to solve many social prOllemS For one thing It is evident that they put flying machines out of court for nt least a century Two or three miles a minute Is faster than flight save indeed the 111ht o wild swans and reed birds need birds have been shot inXew EngIanj with crops I full of Carolina rice which they must have pilfered less than eight hours before be-fore rime coast line Is something like 1tOO mieshence it appears hat the swiftest of an the feathered things barely equal the speed of the new electric elec-tric car What wonders what transformat Ion I may it not work up in the Kiondike shoql the Klondlke prove a stayer and refuse to Peter ouU I seems almost provIdentially adapted to those altitude alti-tude A trestle sUIUclenty high might defy even arctic snows while static power eliminates the main elfculty of operation Vhie operating expenses could not be light It Is safe to assume nobody would grudge double or treble fae Outbotind passengers would pay I hopeful with a eye single to the I nuggets and claims Inbound ones JOY I fully to the Jinglni tune of gbhd al ready In the ocle The ibld may I seem at first blush etrva ant but a little thnightwhh prove that such is I the mechanIcal advance of the lasb twentfve years a railway could now I be built to the Arctic circle more quick Jy and more easily than vas the fIst line to the Pacific coast I H C FF |