No genius falls from heaven, according to an old proverb, and in like manner no technical wonder is born overnight. In an attempt to construct the fastest train in the world, the German Reichsbahn has been carrying on experiments with motored wagons for many years. There are no separate compartments in this train. Each of the coach's halves is one large saloon, with seats for about fifty persons. On one side of the corridor are sections of two seats facing one another, each accommodating three persons, and on the other side are two corner seats for one person each.
Luggage is cared for in the baggage-room in the front.
There is a bar in the middle of the train. It is just large enough for the barkeeper. The clicks at the joints of the rails follow one another ever more speedily, until they finally merge into a continuous song. All danger of accidents has been reduced to as near the vanishing point as is humanly possible. There are as many as four different ways of applying the brakes.