FOOTNOTES:[1]The writer has had several opportunities of riding on the standard gauge locomotives, and noticed, in rounding curves, even at the rate of thirty-five miles per hour, the resulting zig-zag motion; the machine would be running on the tread of the wheels as far as the flanges allowed to one side, striking with terrible force, then bounding to the other side and repeating the action again and again, until it seemed impossible that the rails could be held in place with spikes firmly enough to prevent their tipping over or spreading.[2]Note on page23sworn statement of Henry Henjes, coal dealer.[3]That these advantages have also been acknowledged by electricians of repute, was shown at a recent meeting of “The Boston Society of American Engineers.” In answer to a question of where to put the wires, Capt. Griffin said: “There are several suggestions made in reference to that. Mr. E. Moody Boynton’s Bicycle Railway is especially adapted to electrical purposes.” He then goes on describing and explaining the reasons for this.
[1]The writer has had several opportunities of riding on the standard gauge locomotives, and noticed, in rounding curves, even at the rate of thirty-five miles per hour, the resulting zig-zag motion; the machine would be running on the tread of the wheels as far as the flanges allowed to one side, striking with terrible force, then bounding to the other side and repeating the action again and again, until it seemed impossible that the rails could be held in place with spikes firmly enough to prevent their tipping over or spreading.
[1]The writer has had several opportunities of riding on the standard gauge locomotives, and noticed, in rounding curves, even at the rate of thirty-five miles per hour, the resulting zig-zag motion; the machine would be running on the tread of the wheels as far as the flanges allowed to one side, striking with terrible force, then bounding to the other side and repeating the action again and again, until it seemed impossible that the rails could be held in place with spikes firmly enough to prevent their tipping over or spreading.
[2]Note on page23sworn statement of Henry Henjes, coal dealer.
[2]Note on page23sworn statement of Henry Henjes, coal dealer.
[3]That these advantages have also been acknowledged by electricians of repute, was shown at a recent meeting of “The Boston Society of American Engineers.” In answer to a question of where to put the wires, Capt. Griffin said: “There are several suggestions made in reference to that. Mr. E. Moody Boynton’s Bicycle Railway is especially adapted to electrical purposes.” He then goes on describing and explaining the reasons for this.
[3]That these advantages have also been acknowledged by electricians of repute, was shown at a recent meeting of “The Boston Society of American Engineers.” In answer to a question of where to put the wires, Capt. Griffin said: “There are several suggestions made in reference to that. Mr. E. Moody Boynton’s Bicycle Railway is especially adapted to electrical purposes.” He then goes on describing and explaining the reasons for this.