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Show Increasing the Speed of Railroad Trains. There seems no serious difficulty, on the engineering side, in securing and maintaining a speed of 100 miles an hour, or probably more; but the capitalist is hero intimidated. Higher speeds cost money for initial and operative expenses in vastly higher ratio than cither increase j of speed or the returns to be expected on ' capital so invested. Our fastest trains do not directly pay, even now, when the wear and tear of engines, cars, roadbed and bridges, to say nothing of flesh and blood, nerves and health, are considered. When the people, want higher speeds, and need them so badly as to be able and willing to pay for them, the engineers engi-neers will construct and the railroads will furnish trains of still higher velocity velo-city and of still greater safety. rrofes-sor rrofes-sor R. IL Thurston in Formu. |