Show RAIL TURTLE IS SOMETHING NEW Whether the railroads now predominantly equipped with heavy hUl engines and nd rolling roiling stock can recover some BOOM ot of f the ground lost to lighter competitors tors ors by adopting some of their methods meth- meth di of construction and applications of t power has hItS long been a matter of popular speculation Technical problems leans lems ems have evidently stood In the way ot of f transformations as III rapidly as the Imagination may have hue expected but gradual developments In that direr lon lion are lire becoming Increasingly an- an parent A recent test run run of ot a n rall- rall plane ilane typo type of ot coach lOach between Detroit and Delta Ohio a n distance of ot miles was one of ot the latest evidences of ot this It was a n self propelled coach said ld to be capable of running nt at it ninety miles an hour without training straining but kept within iO miles In Ints Its ts ln breaking 1 trial To attain 70 TO miles mills a representative tive of ot the lab laboratories where the car was c constructed said needed only half the horse power required requIre by passenger er cars of the conventional railway allway design Light eIght wu ob- ob tamed by use of ot materials adopted for tor airplane construction and It lt was wae explained that there would be bo 1 00 pounds of weight for tor each of the 64 M passenger seats scats as aI compared with 1 pounds of ot vehicle weight for each passenger In the conventional railroad conch coach It H was asserted t the could be bo operated at a passenger rate of ot one cent a amile a amile amile mile or less than the busses charge and that berths berth I could be sold at approximately approxImately approximately ap ap- proximately the bus i rate of fare tare In addition to these mil matters tiers of ot popular Interest the technical matter matter matter mat mat- ter of the streamlining of the car was wal described pd In In Ina a picturesque way It had to be lie different from that of an airplane or a ship It was explained because a rail coach does any anI such auch side slip The lines Ines on a are much more like those thoM of ot a turtle titan than those of a fish h. h the spokesman said mid A turtle walk walkIng Ing lug on the bottom of ot a river must must permit water i to slip Up under and over ove It with a minimum of resistance That's what the docs does with witha a 11 beam wind Who w would uld have bave thought of ot a turtle as al model for tor a c vehicle capable of ot traveling at th the rate rato of 70 TO to 00 miles an hour hour In In- In News |