Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-11-17
FAST TRAINS.

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which, according to the projectors, OF
tho Electric express" was to run ut
tho moderate speed of six miles q min
ute, says the London .England) Invcn-
ton. An experimental line was built
at baltimore. and engineers Of some c.
pericncc were sanguinc that even if the
tremendous speed spoken of were not
accomplished, the trains run would put
in the shade everything hitherto accom-
plishcd. One hundred and twenty
miles an hour, or two miles Il minute
was spoken OF Us mechanically possible
lat the constructors, alas! rcclioneG
without their host. twas found that the
incHorablc laws of friction would cause
bearings, wheels, etc, to simply mclt
from tho intense heat evolved In rouuC
numbers q fourfoot wheel would have
TO rcvolvc over eleven thousand times
per minutc-a practicable speed with Il
small spindle, but quite impossible wit,
tho ordinary axle. About n mile and
half per minute is now said tabe ali
that Is within practical Accomplishment
on tho existing type of railway, if fri.-
ton only be considered. AS regard,
safety, even this speed is deemed in
possible by qualified engineers, unlcs
great notifications arc made i!
the existing form and size of 1angcS
rall5, etc. Such u speed has, it l.; 81
legged, been once or twice accomplished
but tho highest of which IN authcnti
record exists Is within Il fraction G
eighty miles per hour, or one and one
third miles per minute. VIC do not, c
course, undertake to say that u hiyhc.
rDtn Of motion f.nnl1 l,N
but all engineers arc agreed that it
not possible with present rails and rol:
Ing stock.
AS matters now stand it would sccr
that 1t Is custer to construct Inotiv
power which will rropcl, or ratlic
drag vehicles ut Il startling pace, Tx.
to design vehicles ::'hich will keep O
the track OF be unlnjurcl by the hca
so generated. 1t i nowadays unSafc
ridiculc any project which does ne
propose to violate some natural law
and it is quito pos ;iblc that SOL!
form of rail and wheel may yet be d
signed which will permit of Il mil
higher rate OF speed than has yet bee
achieved. Eut it il certain that tie.
have still to be- devised, and that pcopi
OF inventive minds have here vet u.
attacked field. After all the rate {,
eighty miles per hour, which has actu:..
~ been accomplished. would hay.
seemed grcntGr miracle to our great.
grandfathcrS than the tall1cd-of orc hun
drcd and twenty docs to us. Watches,
the so>ltion will lie in the adoption OF
tho sliding railway type, or in an i'm
ncnSc increase il wheel ii@rlntc,
nnc@rt.l:I. "Gy - ..:Jo.G4I IyIll with.
out doubt hc solved ut no very distant
date,
Our friends arr cndravoriag 80 graD-
pic with tho '.ii.i,Uit.', ana the main
outln Of u prOpo3 ! to run q high
speed train have been published. IL,
track il to hH bu 1t much heavier tia,
tho roads now in use. IL cxEo3.,
places it would Lc laid in n trouT Xix,
guard to keep the wheels on TIC track.
The cnglnc and cars @rc Gi';antic. the
former having twelve driving wheels.
not iucascd (all wheels gre now in
c1G&U, and the axle Grc to be so con
ssruCtcd rs to give Il low center OF cray
Ivy by having the CIR bottom near the
rails, The great weight, width of r;.il3
give stability. All the wheels under
tho train would DC eight feet in dialac-
ter, this largo size saving friction of
marhinc; and should the wheels rcvolvc
no faster than the present atyla it would
allow Of the speed intended being ut
taircd> As large wheels on the pre- cnt
tracli9 would not be stable, nor would
there be car room, the rails would h2vc
90 be laid ten fo't apart. The car is de-
siGrcd as seventeen feet wilc, twelve
feet high and one kundr,d feet lonr. be-
ing capable Of Boiling four hundred
persons with their baggage, The cars
orc to Join rs smoothly as d pipe, tho
forward part of the cnginc bciuground-
g" Oft and the car EXTERIOR made smooth,
having side doors, windows ond sky
lights, and like u scmi-cliptical cylinder
placed on its face in shape, this smooth
ness and shape being to save friction OF
air, for train in such rapid motion
would create Il greater wind than o vio-
lent hurricane.