The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-15
TO RUN TRAIN 432
MILES IN AN HOUR
Prof. AIbertson Says His Mag.
net Motor Viii Reach That
Dizzy Speed.

NEW YORK, May 14.-According to the
plans of Prof Albert c. Albertson, presi-
dent of. the Electro Ma gnetic Railway
| Construction company, New Workers are
soon to see something in the way of dizzy
speed over the rails that will make the
Empire State Express and twentieth Cen
tury Flyer look like local freights. The
mere matter of eighty miles an hour will
be comparatively SO slow that the passen-
gers are likely to ask the conductor what's
OBTAINING them.
By July 1 Prof. AIbertson's plans to
have in operation the first magnetic train
the world has ever seen His company is
about to begin the construction of a rail-
way between Midland Beach and South
Beach, S. /. The road will be one and
eight -tenths miles in length and the roll
ing stock viii be one little motor of the
i A1beTtson patent, and, at most three cars.
There will be no necessity for more than
a single train, for at the lightning speed
that the Inventor purposes sending it over
the right of way, two trains would be
cumbersome.
Fifteen seconds %will be the schedule
from terminal to terminal if Prof. All
bertson realizes his hopes. He said yes
terday that he had figured it all out, and
made his estimates of the speed with lit
tie models he has in his workshop at
Eleventh avenue and Twenty y-sixth street.
He has a miniature railway there, on
which he chases a toy train of one car
and the queer looking motor every day,
in order to perfect the mechanism. The
inventor says he can purn up the rails
with it, and is really afraid to let it reach
its maximum.
According to Prof Albertsons time
schedule for the Staten Island line,
the train will travel at the rate of about
432 miles an hour, which is approximate
ly five times as fast as the swiftest ex-
press in the United States He says that
he himself does not yet know the exact
maximum of speed that his invention
can attain, but is convinced that it can
haul a train along straight track at
more than 400 miles an hour.
The railroad between Midland Beach
and South Beach is to be sort of
toy elevated structure The rails will
rest on a steel framework feet above
the ground. The object of this is
to give the train what the inventor
regards as absolute immunity from a
wreck. The wheels are to run on the
rails, and then, to make sure that they
cannot jump the track the magnets will
run along under the rails. No diff
ference how high is the rate of speed
attained, Prof. Albertsen says this mode
of construction will effectually prevent the
train from leaving the track.
1.-The principle of the invention is so
simple that even layman may readily
understand it," said the inventor yes
terday. II have given seven years Of my
life to it's study and perfection. The time
is not far distant when the railroads
not only of this country but of every one
in the civilized world, will be compelled
to adopt the electro magnetic motor. 1t
will revolutienize speed and reduce the
cost of operation.
Although a speed of 400 or more miles
an hour sound extravagant at the present,
it is no more fabulous than the rate of
speed ATTAINED today by fast trains ap
peared to the inventive world forty or
fifty years ago.
"The short line is to be constructed
chiefly for the purpose of demonstrating
that under the proper conditions phe
nomenal rate of speed may be obtained
with perfect safety. We expect to have
the best engineers in the world here to see
the initial tests