The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-03-29
TO Be A REVOLUTION
Chauncey M. Depew On Railway
Rapid Transit.
NINETY MILES IN ONE HOUR
Steel Coach and Engine With Steel Cover
Models of Engines That Will Make
Most Extraordinary Time.

New YORK, March 25 1901 Especial cor
respondence of THE HERALD. There will
soon be revolution in the speed of rail
road trains in America The tendency of
the times is towards more rapid transit in
travel, and the great railroad corporations
are going to keep Sin the SWIM Chaun
cey M, Depew while not believer in fast
trains owing to the excessive danger in fast
running says that in ten years express
trains on American roads will in all proba-
bility be making an average OF sixty-tive
miles an hour between the big cities. This
prediction is made with the expectation of
new inventions. a number of which are now
under consideration by the Vanderbilt sys-
tenn officials President Depew does not
believe that the safety devices can be i'm
proved on to very great extent and that
with faster trains there will be more dan
ger, although many existing deficiencies
can be remedied.
''The railroad of the future will be truly
marvellous institution if we keep on improv-
ing for the next ten Years as we have for
ten years past" said President Depew. 1t
will be an outgrowth of the best conditions
now existing among the various railroads
of the world. To make the model railroad
we must first look after the road bed. The
iron tie will come in the course of time it is
more than PROBABLE, and the bed on which
it is laid will be made of stone to hold the
earth filling. Wherever there is liability
of washout it will be constructed of solid
masonry. BY getting the road bed, first of
oil Inc nrfn or "a
iron, in place of timber and rail, we lay the
first foundation for greater speed and for
greater safety We consider the road beds
on the Vanderbilt system A No l, butfwe
advance with the times. Curves and grades
will be done away with to a great extent,
and wherever it is possible in the railroad
of the future. To accomplish this, existing
routes between stations will be changed
and if necessary tunnels cut"
"How about grade crossings as proven
tive to speed and safety"
Next to getting our perfect road bed
with tracks straight and level, the grade
crossing is of great Importance. 1t will
have to be abolished, and on the great roads
probably will be in the course of few
years more. When the graie crossings go
you raise the percentage of safety to life
fully 25 per cent. Tracks will have to be
depressed through corporate limits, and
this will do away not only with the cross
| ings but with restrictions now laid by the
municipal corporations on the speed of rail
road trains. Railroads can be depressed in
| such manner that fast trains need not
check their speed in passing through the
towns. Take for example train we are
now running on the Central between this
| city and Albany. Last week train No Is
drawn by engine S92, made a run of twenty
one miles on the Mohawk division in 20
minutes Inside of d year we can run the
new engine to Albany in 2 hours and 45
minutes, distance of144 miles. You must
| take into consideration the slowing up in
! leaving the depot in this city, the passage
through the tunnel and the shutting off OF