Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1896 — A Marvel in Railroading. [ARTICLE]

A Marvel in Railroading.

A problem in railroading that has received considerable attention from a certain class of inventors has been to devise a scheme whereby two trains may pass each other, going in the same or opposite directions, upon a single track, and thus save -half of the expense now necessary to lay a double track. Less than a year ago patent No. 535,360 was granted for a method of accomplishing this result without the usual sanguinary circumstances that accompany it. The proposed plan is to place a long inclined plane car at each end of one of the trains. Upon these inclined cars and along the roofs of the other cars is laid an ordinary track of standard gauge. When a second train desires to pass this all it has to do is to crowd on steam and climb over it This it can do with equal facility headed in either direction and whether the first train is stationary or moving at a high rate of speed.