Show TWO MllES A MINUTE ON ONE jkIL I Remarkable AChieven n Brussels of aNew Electric Railroad Neaf I While railr3ad operators a boatj l1g or maldn theIr sixty mUe an hour a English 1nvntor has quietly built j a line a ralroad on which trains rUn i regularly at the rate of one hundred rufles an our and frequently attain l I nof a sneed of from two to three miles a I minute And it is a vracUcl achlc 1 I 1cnt with funsized cars capable of carrying 100 passengers each so practical I prac-tical indeed that F B Eclu the en I glrcc and Inventor has just formed j a syndicate in London fOr constuct Inc a lIne on his new system between Liverpool lea Manchester He calls r I very truly the Ltghtnn Espress nalwa I will regularly make the distance of about thirty miles In 1 twenty minutes includIng stops Between i Be-tWeen Stt01S the cars will fre ue1ty attain a speedof two miles n minute The character of the new road is a I strange as ir achievements The trains run on n single rail set several feet I above ground on trestlework and the l ote power Is furnished by electricity electric-ity The cars somewhat resemble a big oblong bun turned upside Uown with wheels set thick along the part that answer for the bun crease and hedged about with guide wheeels so that it cannot jump toe tradt along I whIch i is propeled i WONDERS QF THE NEW ROD I York on the Lhclool lan cluster road will begin within a few onths The first line of the kind built 4 Mr Bebl in Teruenei near Brus telK BCW m has ben In operation I for some months and has been found to be rcmaknbh sUccestful I crosses I brIdges and roads It circles around abort cures It climbs steep grades It I enters and leaves Its depots by means of what are prQbablr the most curous switch arrangements In the wodd and i gives its passengers a new s ns tona sensation of n Seed of propulsion pro-pulsion hitherto unattalned in any contrivance I con-trivance invented by man for the transportation of passengers Inded I It Is said that the curious lent1wlse arrangements of the seats within the I cari4 are to prevent the fun effect of car appearance of swiftness on the 1Jssensers 111 Behr says that a man who sits 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 a In American cars does not get such an alarming impression of terrific speed Mr Behr has been quietly operating the trans on this new line in Beglum for some time past and he has put it to the secrest and most exacting tests such as operating the trains under un-der n speed of EQ miles an hour around sharp curves and of dropping them don steep grades wlthout any diminution diminu-tion of velocity The Teruerne road Is three miles long built in the shape of an chose That Is to say there are two straight sides joined by curved I end the curves hayIng a radius of 1600 I i feet The track proper Is 11 5tout trestle laid upoa ground sleepers Upon top the trestle there dlss ge slnglcoearing I rail and at either side of It lower down a guide rail I HOW THE ROAD IS STRUCTED That is not so very wonderful but you cannot say so much of the car Itself I Is a sort of doubledecker about sixty feet IonS and dual lengthwise length-wise a wen as vertically throughout its lower half This double lower portion por-tion houses the main wheels the guide wheels and the electric motor whIch reteh their power from a conductor 1 laid long the track There are four I of tbtc motor weighing three tons each They are attached to four of the i eight carriage wheels With GOO revo I lutons per minute each motor develops I 150 horse power That gives a speed of 100 mIles a hour which can easily be I doubled Besldl the eight carriage wheels there are thirtytwo guide heels which run I upon LIt guide rails and Ilreervl the equilibrium Thus even at three miles t 1 a nltiute there Is no possibility of do ralment The upper half the car proper seats I 100 passengers and has beside compartments com-partments for the electrician and con ductr In tIle electricans cabin there are two air brakes one for slacking I speed the otirer for actually stopping he the train I Electricity enlace from 3 power house in thE Teneren park which has a I tpacl of about 100 horse poner The I dynamo have 3 working strength of I 750 volts Electricity is fed to the Hne by n copper cable properly crmn ted I to the steel contact rail which is car ned on china Insulators made fast to rle sleepes This contact rail feed especial collectors which In turn Jas the power to the motors This line has sharper curves and steeper gradients than are likely to occur on any comerial railway and it has itself bEen mot 3crely and I impartially tested under the eyes of I ommlssioner specially appointed by the governments of Belgium and Russia Rus-sia So It is worth while to hear what I those bigwig official gentlemen say oft o-ft A sIngleri line on trestles with a bearIng surface for the vertical pre sure n of the roiling stock and supplied with guide wheels to resist lateral pressure offers fewer chances of derailment de-railment than the ordinary railway rlment says me A second comes in like an echO A singleral line wit curves of the radius common upon express routes ch be traveled over much more I rapidly and more saely than an orl track tary track CLROSITIES OF THE NEW LINE I One of the curloshlc Of the Tr yucrcn line is the method of crssin j cbuntr roadways of which there are I several through the park at Terueren In order to maintain such 3 seed It i would be fatal to have to slow down I I for a crossing Accordingly lr Behr fha rigged Ul a marvelous dmwbrfdge I I for roads This drawbridge is worked I automatically so that when the train of the approaches the two sections I bride partn in the middle fly up I allowing the train to laSS at full speed I Mr Ie1r expects in the future to use I h1sne invention not only for short distances between densely populated cites but for long distances through the country where the passenger traffic traf-fic Is 1are I his line now projected from Liverpool to Manchester Is en tr satisfactory think of the passi 1JItes for still longer ones For instance In-stance a traveling man might go to I bed in the evening in 3 train In eW York and wake up fresh for business in Chicago the next morning I would j be erect feasible to go to Florida I r 1JLj 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 greater safety than that attained In the swiftrunning doubletrck trains of today II COST OF SINGLERAIL 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 oft of-t t cost at from 5000 tu 100000 the mile but asserts that the operating ex trenses are so moderate that the single ral lenses lnes ca carry prssengera at a less I rte tan Is now charged upon fast trains and still pay divIdends upon I their capital He says too that he see no likelihood of Interfering with freight i tmfc nor even of monopolizing the passenger business What he advises Is the construction of slnrlerai Systems Sys-tems along some of the great trunk lines possibly In connection with them so that impatient travelers or timid ones or 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 SINGLERAIL EVOLUTIN IDEA The genesis of this Ternlse line is most interesting I is n much an evolution evo-lution as It may work n revolution Y31ious and sundry ether singleral lines have existed in various and sundry sun-dry parts of the world Some ran by i mule power some by steam power The I Tervueren line is however the first to run by hare sed lightning Its imme hate 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 half it has run for eleven earsodd without having n car wheel once leave the track or a passenger or employee make a laln agaInst it for I damages This though I Is operated I by steam and runs twenty miles an hournot an astounding rate of speed but a very efficient one un de the cir cumstances 1r Beht built I a later 11e built the Belgian experimental line The 1lsto wel model was 3 line put up by a French engineer out In Algeria At first he built n loubletrack line out on the ground hut the san storms cover eel up his tracks faster than he could uncover them sa he had recourse to trestle construction along which cars were drawn by mules after the manner of boats on 3 canal Happening to see It Mr Debr decided that it was 3 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 lle might be a sure or helping help-ing he world to go very fast POSSIBILITIES OF INVENTION i Speculation is idle but prospects f A 4 11 r L2 rAT r-AT A DEPOTSBOWING IIIETHOD OP SWITCHING I such as these invite it Singlerai lines may help to solve many social prblems For one thing it is evident that they lmt flyitig machines out of court for nt least h century Two or three miles 3 minute is faster than flight save indeed the 1ht of wild swans and reed birds Reed birds have I been shot in New Englan with crops full of Carolna rice which they must have pilfered less than eight hours he fore The coast line is something like lGOO mieshence it appears hat the swiftest of aU the feathered things barely equal the sped of the new dee I I I tric car What wonders what transformation I I may It not work up In the Klundlke I shoild the Klondike prove n stayer and i rl use to peter out I seems almost t l providentially adapted to those alt tudes A trestle sutcienty high might I defy even arctic snows whie static I power eliminates the main eUfculty of operation While pertlng expenses I could not be light It is safe to assume I abbody would grudge oulle or treble fae Outbound passengers would pay I hopefully with an eye single to t1 I nugget and clalps inbound ones Joyfully JOY-fully to the Jingilngtune of iold a I ready In the pocket The assertion may seem nt first blush e extravagant but a little tought wifl prove that such Is the mechanical advance of tbC last twentte years a railway could now be built to the Arctic circle more quickly quick-ly and more easily than was the first line to the PacIfic coast H C FF 1 r e THE ONO AOAD AND ITS INVENTOR |