The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-11
A BOON TO SUBURBANITES
IF THEY CAN GET ON BOARD
 OF TRAINS,
Although There Is No Stopping For
 Passengers.
Passe enSers.

Among the patents which have been
 recently granted in the United States
 may be mentioned one issued to John
 w. Jenkins of PA Front street, New
 York city, for an interesting system
 whereby passengers are to be discharg
 ed from train without the necessity of
 stopping at stations. The characteristic
 feature of the invention resides in the
 employment of a number of saddle
 cars, which are successively taken up
 and dropped from the moving train
 and through the medium of which pas
 sengers may enter or leave a train
 without interrupting it's movement The
 railway cars employed are of the usual
 construction. Each car is provided on
 it's roof with two nails, and the cars
 run on standard rails commonly en-
 ployed. The rails on the roof of the car
 have their ends projected beyond the
 ends of the cars and grooved laterally,
 so that the continuity of the track formed on the roof of the cars will not be broken on a curve. These roof rails serve the purpose of receiving the sad
 dle car.
 Alongside of the nails upon which the passenger car runs are arranged two rails which receive lower Hanged wheels on the saddle car These auxiliary track rails do not extend continuously throughout the length of the railroad track, but are located only at the sta tions at which 1t is desired to load and unload the passengers. The auxiliary track rails are each provided with rais- ed portions adjacent to the ends toward which the car is moved, and the ends of these auxiliary rails are tapered
 The saddle car itself consists of a skeleton Ike structure which is design ed to straddle the passenger cars so that the train may pass hereunder. | The saddle car also includes a compart- ment by which the passengers pass to and from the train. The saddle car at it's top is provided with broad faced wheels which are arranged to run on the roof rails of the passenger car. When these broad faced wheels are en- gagged with the roof rails, the saddle car will be lifted off the auxiliary track rails, but the raised parts of these auxiliary rails are sufficiently elevated | to lift the entire saddle car from the passenger train when the lower wheels of the saddle car engage the high parts of the auxiliary rails, and in so raising the saddle car, to lift the upper broad faced wheels off the roof rails.
 The roof rails on the front of the car are tapered downward so that they will readily engage under the oad-faced wheels. One of the saddle cars is to be placed at each station on the road. As the train approaches the station. the tapered ends of the roof rails will run under the broad-faced upper wheels of the saddle car, and the saddle car will be lifted off the auxiliary track rails and carried away with the train The saddle car will ride along the top of the train, and by the time it has got to the last car will have assumed the momen- tum of the train. The saddle car and train will be locked together, and then the passengers can pass from one to the other.
 As the train approaches the next sta tion the lower wheels of the saddle car will engage the raised part of the auxiliary rails and the saddle car will be lifted off the train, thus permitting the train to pass on and leave the sad dle car at the station. When the sad dle car is thus dropped, the train inn runs into a second saddle car placed on the other end portion of the auxiliary track rails and takes the sec lnd saddle car up with it's passengers This operation is repeated al each sta 1 ton, one saddle car being left at each station and one saddle car being taken l ID. By this arrangement the train $ nay move without stop through the l {