The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-29
TIE WINGS TO TRAINS.

1t looks if we have reached the limit of speed with
our present type of steam or electric trains
We have to place where, the faster want to
go by rail the heavier must make trains in order
to gain balance and friction for the drive wheels In time
will reach place where the weight necessary for fast
train will make impossible the speed seek.
The IL hour trains between New York and Chicago
weigh 100000 pounds each They carry rs passengers
who weigh approximately 1880 pounds thus the train
weighs 100 times than it's passengers. This
that and half of STEEL wood, coal etc.
necessary to carry each passenger to Chicago Each
passenger pays three and half cents pound to get him.
self and his share OF the train to Chicago If this weight
used in making automobile to carry single man,
the machine would weigh almost much freight
Ii the railroad owners want trains to faster than this
they must be made heavier than this. For instance this
spring. when Frank Vanderp, president of the National
City bank of New York. wanted reach the deathbed of
his mother in Chicago, he ordered special train. Mr.
Nanderlps attached to the engine but it
essary to attach four to his in order to gain
weight that would permit of the so mile hour speed that
maintained for 16 hours
If reach speed that is greater than speed of
today the trains in which ride will appear far different
to those than This is because speed MAX
ers must find principles of rapid transportation They
must enter new and unknown fields to find what they
desire.
AS it is now, the faster train goes the it must
weigh What they seek is principle that will the
faster train goes the less it will weigh.
1t is not improbable that this be accomplished by
the use of the aeropane. Even great New York
plane and the trolley The trolley he plans will furnish
the power that will drive the cars; the aeropanes above
each &c car will exert lifting power 50 that at speed of
and the clamps that will hold the trolley to the overhead
rail must be very strong.
With present trains the and tear of speed of
$50 miles hour would break the strongest rails. With
the aeropane arrangement the weight the rails would
be very small
$50 slowly is the order these days. when train
approaches weak bridge This is prevent vibration
the rails.
The order that engineer of high speed aeroplane
train would receive before coming to weak spot in the
roadway would be- eco fast you can" For that
would mean support from the air and less vibration
the rails
Our great inventions not sudden They grow With
out ball bearings bicycles would have been impossible
Bicycles brought about the invention of pneumatic tires
and without pneumatic tires automobiles would have been
an mpossbility
With the advent of the automobile the improve
ment of the gasoline motor And without perfest light
weight motor aeroplanes would have been impossible
Today thanks in part to the who invented ball
bearings we have aeroplanes Where will the aeroplane
lead us? The Wright brothers say their machine will
be used to carry freight.
But the principles they have discovered may be applied
to rapid transportation of large numbers of human beings