The San Francisco call., 1896-12-13

invention of Charles E. Dosser, we'll
known Syracuse man, makes possible of
mplishment. He has designed a
wonderful travelling railroad station in
the form of car with a vestibuled bridge
at the side.
Mr.. Dosser's business takes him about
the country a great deal. In fact he
makes his home largely on railroad trains.
Slow time and long waits have often been
his lot, and it was in trying to endure
these discomforts of the travellers life
that the remarkable plan he proposes to
have executed arose in his brain. If only
some invention could be conceived by
which unfortunate passengers who long
for an express train but are fated 10 miss
it because they were at way stations could
gain their object humanity would be BEN
Gifted.
Then came the thought as to how
change of cars could be effected without
delaying the express train; that is,
change from the local to the limited.
After studying the subject for more than
year, Mr.. Dosser has just evolved an in
yentlon which he hopes to see tried. 1t
provides for limited train, or an express
that is unlimited, that shall run through
from New YORK to Chicago, for example,
without making a single stop, travelling
steadily at the rate of sixty miles an hour.
To BRING this about he would have aux
iliary trains, each of which should pick up
Every train would be scheduled to be at
certain station at the time the ex press was
due. By an arrangement with the tele-
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which the auxiliary train was waiting, the
conductor thereof would receive notice
from the telegraph operator about five
minutes before the express arrived.
Then the auxiliary would pull out on
the track next to the one used by the ex-
press and proceed to make time. The
time that it would try to make would be
sixty miles an hour, which would not be
difficult task, because the engine of each
auxiliary train would be of the very best
class and capable OF making high speed.
BY the time the express was near the
auxiliary train the latter would be making
close to the desired speed, and both engi-
neers would regulate the time they were
making so as to run neck and neck. Now
comes the change OF passengers.
its side door which opens inward. Folded
close to the side of the car. just outside
this door, is what seems to be the ordin-
ary accordlon-like coupling of vestibule
train. There is, however, this difference,
it has no platform on which the passen-
gers are to walk. The vestibule counting
is not directly on line with the bottom
of the door, but about a foot above it,
fastened to two powerful arms of steel
which move UP and down.
The express train. that stops for nothing
but accidents. also has transier-car in its
makeup. There is door in the side of
this car, Just as in the transfer-car of the
auxiliary. Outside, too, is the same ac-
cordion-like vesiibule, but in addition,
outside the vestibule and fastened to the
side of the car, the lower end resting upon
stout arrangement of steel, is what re-
sembles the gangway of big passenger
steamer, minus the railing.
Looking again at the transfer-car of the
auxiliary it will be noticed that just below
the door are two heavy sockets. A little
distance on each side of the door and be-
low the threshold are two more sockets