The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1871-06-09

The car Of three feet gauge. would on-
ly hammer the rail with 1,300 pounds
for each wheel. A report to the Mas
sachusetts Legislature says: Tin fol-
lowing tho devious course ofa river val
lev with the narrow gauge, 1t would bc
almost always possible to adopt plans
almost parallel to the stream, and to go
around re-entrant projections, which
would have to be cut through at what
ever cost il the common gauge were
used." The report adds that branch
railways may be built and equipped. in
n country like Massachusetts, with tho
narrow gauge, at one-third OF the cost
of the common gauge, and III Level dis
ltricts for about Onc-half
An able engineer writing on this sub
feet saws: II am Of the opinion that
for any projected line OF railway in this
country where the maximum speed shall
not bc required to exceed 40 miles an
hour. a 3 feet gauge is ample wide, amt
will admit Of rolling stock powerful ana
capacious enough to secure all the all
vantages and comforts now claimed ior
the wide gauge but if the speed is to be
increased, the values alter; and the ad-
yantaees would concentrate on a feet
81 inches at q speed Of 60 miles an hour.
LII is principally I'm speed that values
alter the capacities do not greatly
change. In fact, the capacity OF feet
gauge. If fworked to its full, with q Fair
lie engine, is equal to any feet " M
ches or feet gauge us to carrying
power" e rt
SPEED AND COMFORT OF CARS.
The same writer says: "Spced is OBJ
tanned bya sacrifice Of cconnny, and for
this reason it should be kept as low as
the requirements Of the passenger traffic
will allow. Thirty or forty miles an
hour can be made with the same safety
on u thrcc-fect gauge as on wider one,
and as for comfort the frst-elass cars OH
such a road offer as much, if not more,
scat room for passengers than do the
ordinary American car. The proposed
first-class passenger coach for three
foot gauge road seats IL passengers, al
lowing each passenger 26A inches in
width Of scat. This arrangement offers
the greatest seating capacity with every
comfort in car built for strength,
durability and lightncss, thereby otler-
ing the smallest amount OF dead weight
possible to bc moved for each passcl-
ger transported.
CAPACITY OF. FREIGHT CARS.
"Thc same principle is applied to
freight cars, as to get tho greatest area or
Of floor with the smallest amount Of ma
tcrial consistent with strength and safe
ty. This is found to be a car Is feet
long by 8 feet wide inside, to carry
tons weight ofcar 2 tons or 10 fectlOng
by 8 feet wide, to carry tons. Loading
such cars with freight that W III reach
say feet high from the floor, and weigh
ing tons for the larger car, and taking
the center Of gravity from this data and
describing line from same through an
angle of stability of 38 degrees the gauge
of feet is reached ut point feet in
chcs below the floor. The above angle OF
stability will apply TO the passenger cars
in the same manner rs the freight, and
with the same result"
PASSENGER AND PALACE CARS.
The cars made by Jackson y Sharpe,
of the Delaware Car Works, Mt Wash
inytOI, for the Denver and FL I'asO Rail-
road and a Georgia narrow gauge road.
are represented as having every comfort
this branch of the subject, comparing
similar cars for s-fcet gauge road Will,
the Pullman cars Of the widc gauge.
says: Outside width of cars The 4
feet 81 inch gauge is IL fect6 inches
high, or 1855 times the gauge; the feet
gauge is to DC 8 feet 6 inches high. or
2.s3 times the gauge. Speed oftrains -
The feet 81 inch gnt.c trains
move SO miles an hour, or O.S85 miles
per inch Of gauge; the feet gauge
trains move 30 miles an hour, or O.SS3
miles per inch Of gauge. have often
travelled on the the l foot IL inch gauge
at a speed exceeding 80 miles an hour"