The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-11-02
TWO HUNDRED MILES IN
ONE HOUR.
That is To Be the Speed of a New
Railway Train BuiIt on
the Bicycle Plan.

halfway IRAN 6UIIt on
the Bicycle Plan.
There is a bicycle needle train
that is capable of running 200
miles per hour, with the motor in
and on the wheel without any
gearing. Thus a current of 10000
miles speed per second is permitted
to push with direct action a grooved
car, supported by two double
Hanged wheels only, the same
number of wheels and running the
same as bicycle, yet furnishing
private and palatial quarters, in
which people will travel from the
Atlantic to the Pacific in June day
light without possibility of derail-
ment, dust, smoke or heat, so the
inventor claims.
And yet this system, the inventor
claims, can be applied to the exist
ing roads or pass above them,
avoiding all grade crossing, thread
ing above the streets of the crowded
city, on top or side of existing
bridges, capable of scaling any
mountain or following the face of
granite cliff and canon, crossing
morass and river with a single line
of posts.
In word, the system is this ::
| Single story electric cars designed
particularly for single track ele-
waited structure; cars 4 feet wide
and 80 feet in length, and designed
for two motors, one on each wheel,
which would give motor power Of
from $50 to 200 horse power, with
weight of six tons for car and
motor, and traction for a train of
100 tons, and capable of moving
500 passengers.
But as high speeds are sought,
fewer number of cars should be
attached, in proportion to the high
speed sought.
This combined car and motor,
while designed primarily as a loco
motive, has six compartments, each
capable of seating as in common
hack four persons, allowing two
feet seat space to each or six per-
sons with 16 inches to each. The
car is open above the shoulders of
the seated passengers and is lighted
with electric lights and provided
with every appliance of elegance
and comfort.
The front and rear of the car
narrows like a wedge and divides
the air at high speed so completely
that not a particle of dust enters
the car.
The two bicycle double-fanged
wheels on which the car rests are
spindle wheels, one at each end of
the car, five feet in diameter and
turning automatically, always pre-
senting the front surface of the
spindle-wheel to the railroad, with
out any loss by friction in round
ing the sharpest curves. The
motor is in and on the wheel, like
a plate upon each side of the
wheel, and the edge of it may be
seen in one front compartment.
1t is the first motor of the kind
ever made and run under patents,
recently issued to E. M. Boynton.
The armature is about three times
the circumference of those in use
on the street cars in Boston, but
very much thinner and narrower,
and requiring about one-third of
the wire used by them to develop
the same power.
The leverage, or circumferential
pull, when operating at the high
rates of speed for which it is de.
signed, will give it, with less weight,
three-fold power.
This new motor, absolutely gear
less, in and On a wheel and axle as
simple as bicycle wheel, is noise
less in its action. 1t is designed to
be covered by the outer plates of
the wheel in all motors hereafter
manufactured, but in this is left
uncovered for public inspection.
Back Of the single spindle wheel
at each end of the car is piece of
U-shaped steel encircling the sup
porting rail, and overhead is a SIM
liar Z on the car just back of the
guiding wheel, which wheel scarce
ly touches the guiding rail, but if
removed the U would completely
guide the train and render derail-
ment impossible.
In fitting around the curves the
overhead guide is built inward or
outward in the direction of the
curve, so that the motion of the
two siagle spindle wheels, one at
each end, which alone support the
car, is, when tilted round curve,
precisely like the action of the BIZ
cycle rider in turning a street cor
ner.
There is no lateral motion what
ever, and the DETECTED momentum
is transferred to the supporting