How the world travels . s, and trucks is already in existence in Ire-land, where it runs between Listowel and Bally-bunion. The line is raised some feet from theground, and is about 10 miles in length. Theengine is a very curious-looking machine, with aboiler on each side and two funnels. This isarranged so that the weight is evenly are also methods by which the trains on amono-railway may be steadied by means of a won-derful contrivance called a gyroscope. Closely allied to the single-line railway is thehanging railway, which was first invented to carryloads of merchandise or m
How the world travels . s, and trucks is already in existence in Ire-land, where it runs between Listowel and Bally-bunion. The line is raised some feet from theground, and is about 10 miles in length. Theengine is a very curious-looking machine, with aboiler on each side and two funnels. This isarranged so that the weight is evenly are also methods by which the trains on amono-railway may be steadied by means of a won-derful contrivance called a gyroscope. Closely allied to the single-line railway is thehanging railway, which was first invented to carryloads of merchandise or minerals across rivers orover rough forest lands where an ordinary linewould be difficult and expensive to is one of these hanging railways inRhodesia, where a strong wire crosses from bankto bank of a river, and carries a chair-shaped seatwhich can hold two passengers. This is draggedbackwards and forwards by means of a secondwire. Sometimes, instead of wire, rope is used, and THE TRAVEL OF TO-MORROW 119. MONO-RAIL CAR. WITH GYROSCOPE. 120 HOW THE WORLD TRAVELS these rope railways can be seen in use at manyof the mines in South Africa. Other and more elaborate railways in the airhave been made in Germany, and there is one forpassengers running between Barmen and Elber-field. In this case the single rail is raised on hightrestles, and the carriage, which looks very muchlike a large tramcar, runs along the line suspendedbeneath the trestles. Then, too, we may in the future have railwaysthat will take us across the English Channel,either through a great tunnel or over a bridge,reaching, as was proposed in 1884, from Folke-stone to Cape Grisnez. A third plan that has been suggested for cross-ing to France is that of a submarine bridge, uponwhich a curious construction or platform wouldrun, and on this the trains themselves could betaken from shore to shore, while still anotherproposal was that large ferry-steaniers should bebuilt, on the lower decks of which the tra
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