Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-27
TINE ANNIHMATED.
Traine Moving at the Rate of
 Three Miles 8 Minute.

Trains Moving at the Rate of
 Three Miles a Minute. A Bright Streak of Rod Flying Through Space = Tho Weems Transit system
 An Electro-Automatio Railroad
 of Great Intsrsst. The Weems railway system, incorporated under the name of the Electro-A utomatio Transit Company, of Baltimore, has patent ed multiplicity of electrical and mechan- ical appliances as preliminary to putting the system regularly to work whenever re- quired. By this electro-automatic arrangement 1t Is claimed that speed of three miles min ute can be attained and maintained on level tracks, and two miles minute on heavy grades and curves.
 The motor car is eighteen feet long and two and one-half feet square at each end It is pointed in front, the wedge or point being below the longitudinal center, adjust ing it to the air pressure, thus keeping tho car down to the track. To reduce atmos- pheric friction to minimum all wheels and electrical appliances are placed within tho walls of the cars.
 The road Is to be huilt on the surface of the ground, with track of twenty four inch es gauge. The mail and express cars are telesooped in forming train, the former into the end of the motor car, and the latter into that of the one preceding it, forming . flexible train of cars, offering an unbroken surface to the air.
 The rear end of the rear car Is pointed In a similar manner to the frona of the motor ear, thus preventing any suction as the train rushes on It's way. The motor may pull one car or train of cars.
 All trans will be controlled from gener- ating station, where will be placed an cleo trical generating plant. Electrical brakes are to be used, and trains are started, stopped, apeed lessened and backed at will from the station.
 Special appliances will inform the opera tor in charge of the generating station of the exact location of the train from the time It leaves or passes any given point until 1t reaches It's destination.
 The patents of the company number one hundred and forty-three in the United States and the principles countries of the world, covering the vital details of this novel system.
 The principles patented involve special form of rail- making it impossible for trains to jump the track at any rate of speed :; Ao1 LII VI 0AOCtAN SdACGy AoAAS yIuk Luo outgoing current and returning the same on the same rail (this rail can be crossed by pedestrians or vehicles with perfect safety); form of conductors and rails com bined, with insulation of the same for carry ing currents over long distances; means of starting, stopping, backing and controlling trains from the generating stations; method of regulating the electrical currect auto matically oa trains while in motion, in- | creasing the power in ascending and de- | creasing the same in descending grades :; | means whereby trains automatically register themselves at every station as they pass every mile track; form of journals and | boxes for fast speed to avoid heating; re- 1 ducing the air pressure at high speed to a minimum by pointed cars splitting the air in front and preventing suction in the rear while in transit; reducing the cross-section of cars to 8 minimum and enclosing the wheels and electrical equipment within the walls of the same to offer as little resistance to the air as possible; telescoping the cars l of 8 train to present to the air an unbroken surface; special switch for rails; keeping the center of gravity of the whole train be. low the axles.
 l Patents have also been secured for pas. senger system which applies to the conver. sion of existing steam railroads into electrlc railroads.
 A series of experiments have been made at Laurel, Md, to show what the Weems railway system will do.
 This experimental line is circuit of ex actly two miles. Over this route there are l twenty-nine changes of grades, some of them very heavy, even to tho extent of 10S feet tc tho mile.
 It is claimed that at this experimental sta tion two miles per minute are made around 0 heavy curve, or the equivalent of 1SO miles an hour, or three miles 8 minute on 8 leve track.
 A visitor to this experimental station sees many things to surprise him, says the Balti more Sun. There are no extensive works and the motor car when 1t comes out from under it's shed, in obedience to the will oi the engineer in the distant plant building where the electric dynamo generates the current, moves deliberately, slowly and with an abseHco of all sound.
 This cigar shaped car, painted 8 bright red and moving sharp end foremost, at first 1 sight does not seem a wonderful thing as ii goes quietly along the track, but later, wher the engineer at the dynamo puts on more power, or as a steam-car man would say more steam, and the creeping thing on the ground hastens It's movement until 1t fairly flies, and becomes moving speck of red spectators feel the progress being made in applied science and talk of tho wonders of electricity, and the great things 1t will accomplish in the active affairs of life in the near future.
 AN ACT OF hEROISM.