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Show THE FUTURE OF RAILROADS. The laitVoiJif Gatif, in reviewing ihe history oi (he first half century of raiiroaJ progress which was jiiat celebrated at Darlington, England, j and commenting on its probable future. SAV:-: Probably in most par's of the world the period of very rapid construction of railroads of the type now prevailing is passed. Civiiiaed countries are now pretty svei! supplied with great Ira Hie routes. There seems good teasou to mink, however, that very light and cheap railroads may hike the place of ordinary highways to a great extent. If nnide so that tlie freight cars of the heavy roads can pats over them (as they have been sometimes, and always al-ways can be), and limited to the very low spttds at which alona a very thin traflic can be economically conducted, they might very well wilniu a moderate moder-ate period rival in extent the principal princi-pal lines; but of heavy railroads intended for fast passenger trains, the world has probably built many more within the past fifty than it will in the coming tilt; years. |