Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1897 — Step Off the Moving Train. [ARTICLE]

Step Off the Moving Train.

Passengers are to have an opporttmity to board and Leave trains which are in motion at the Paris exposition of 1900 by means of a new system devised by a French civil engineer. The idea was suggested by the moving sidewalk of the world’s fair. The outer circumference of a circular platform is to travel at the same rates as the passing train. There will be no danger upon entering the platform from a staircase in the center, where the speed is comparatively low. In advancing toward the edge the increase is gradual and anticipated. The station -attendant overlooks the entire platform from a tower in the center,, and should there lie a heavy crowd he causes the train, by means of switches, to run around the station, allowing ample time to dis charge and take on all passengers. It is proposed to work trains and plat forms at a speed of seven and one-hall miles aa hour.