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Show Several of the magazines published for railway men and engineers nre asking for the Invention of a new kind of railway track. Tho present track, they say, has been tho same for thirty yenrs and cannot bear fast travel as It should. The old wooden cross-tlo Is In use everywhere, though It was long ngo out of date. There is no evenness nor elasticity in the broken stone nnd gravel upon which the tie rests. The foundation Is unequal. un-equal. It requires tho most constant attention. A flood will destroy it in a few hours. If we nre td travel faster than sixty miles an hour, our Inventors Inven-tors must give us u new kind of railway rail-way track, less flimsy than the kind we have ut present. |