Show RAM RAIL TURTLE IS SOMETHING NEW whether the railroads now predominantly equipped with heavy engines engine and rolling stock can recover soma of the ground lost to lighter competitors by adopting some borne of their methods of construction and applications of power has long been a matter of popular speculation technical problems have evidently stood in the way of transformations as rapidly as the imagination may have expected hot but gradual developments jn in that direction are becoming increasingly apparent A recent test run of a rail plane type of coach between detroit and delta ohio a distance of L am miles was one of the latest evidences of this it was a self propelled coach sold said to be capable of running at ninety miles an hour without straining but kept within 70 miles in its breaking ln in trial to attain 70 miles a representative of the laboratories where the car W was as constructed said needed only half the horse power required by passenger cars of the conventional railway design light weight was waa obtained by use of materials adopted for airplane construction and it was waa explained that there would be pounds of weight for each of the 64 54 passenger seats as compared with pounds of vehicle weight tor for each passenger in the conventional railroad coach it was asserted that the rall plane could be operated at a passenger rate of one cent a mile or less than the busses charge and that berths bertha could be sold at approximately the bus rate of tare fare in addition to these matters of popular interest the technical matter of the streamlining of the car wag waa described in a picturesque way it had bad to be different from that of an airplane or a ship it was explained because a rall rail coach does not permit any such side aide SUP slip the lines on a rall plane are much more me like those of a turtle than those of a fish the spokesman said A turtle walking on the bottom of a river must permit water to sup slip under and over aver it with a minimum of resistance what the rall plane does with a beam wind who would have thought of a turtle as model tor for a vehicle capable of traveling at the rate of 70 to 80 90 miles an hour in dlana polls news |