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Show 1 110 MILES PER HOUR ! & y!A Trains on Mono-Rail Lino, to Do ullt at Hk St) Onco, Will Trnvol at That Rato ol Speed (k Thero is at last in sight a railway that will carry passengers 110 milea an hour regularly, and tho crodlt for making it practicable belongs to Great Drltaln. There have been models of high-velocity -.'lway trains mado in different countries nnd a mile or two of track have been constructed for experimental ex-perimental uses, but Mr. V. B. Hehr an English engineer, deserves th credit of putting tho thing Into practical prac-tical U9C. Tho railway Is to bo built nt onco betweon Manchester nnd I.lvorpool, a dlstanco of 34 miles. Only through trains will be used and tho running tlmo will bo less than twenty minutes. min-utes. ' Tho systom Is of tho so-called monorail mono-rail typo, that is, tho cnglno and cars rest upon one rail which is about halfway half-way from tho floor to tho top of tho car. By arranging tho scats back to back like an Irish jaunting car, tho construction Is such that each of tho carriages straddle the rail, and extends ex-tends to trucks on either sldo below the floor. On those trucks aro sot wheol3 which Ho horizontally nnd run on the outsldo of two other rails. They Uius act as stcadlcrs, and admit of very high velocity with safety, and mnko abrupt curves possible Tho ulan Is to run an onglno and ono car every ton minutes, nnd tho probability Is that in tlmo for a radius of 100 miles around a largo city peoplo can get in and out each day to tholr business busi-ness within an hour. Mr. Bohr has the Bupport of export englnocrs ail ovor England. Many of them nppcarod beforo tho houso of commons com-mltteo com-mltteo nt the tlmo when tho sanction of tho government was secured for tho building ot this road, and they tcstlflod to tho safety nnd practicability practicabil-ity of tho wholo scliomo. Engineers nro ngreod that averago speeds of over scvouty mile3 nn hour aro imposslblo on tho curves found on existing railways. Tho construc tion it a special mono rail track wonld onnblo very high spoods to bo roach od vlth perfect safoty and would do iiay with that "mixture ot snoods" which rendors tho problem of doallng with express, slow, and freight trafllo ono of ever-Increasing dllllculty to tha railway companion. Tho mono-rali tracks would bo laid nlongsldo tlio existing ex-isting two-rail ground trncxs or th cars could bo run overhead If so desired. de-sired. It hns been practically established estab-lished that the limit of size and power In locomotives and In rall-constructloa haB been reachod according to tho A Mono-Rail System Now In Operation at Ballybunnlon In Ireland. This railway, which is about fifteen mllos long, is operatod by steam, whereas tho fast express service bolwecn Manchester and Liverpool will bo by electricity. The engine and carriages aro slung in pannier fashion across tho single rail, which Is raised about threo foot from tho ground. present railway methods. Eloctriolty has helped materially In grados, not only making a groat saving in tho construction of road-beds, but in opening open-ing country of certain topographical eccontrlcity which will noer bo available avail-able for steam power generated in a locomotlvo hauling a train. The combination com-bination of electricity and tho monorail mono-rail system makes those much steeper grades and sharper curves posslblo, hut at the samo tlmo It practically eliminates the danger bf derailment. It lookb, thorefore, as If thoro wore a chanco that passengers might bo ablo to travel with at least tho samo safoty us to-day, at double the rato of tho Inside a Mono Rail Car. Tho passengers nro to sit on either sldo of tho central projection, which covers tho propelling wheels running on tho top rail. present fastost express train by tho mono-rail system. |
