NEW YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO IN SIXTY HOURS.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 688, 23 July 1870, Page 2

NEW YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO IN SIXTY HOURS.

(Potsville [Perm.] Miners' Journal.) We were showu, yesterday, the model of a new railroad and machinery, invented by B. A. Wilder, for which he has made application for a patent, by which the trip can be made from New York to San Francisco in 60 hours, including moderate stoppages at the principal points, with much more safety than on the present road. There will be four rails laid down iustead of two, for a single track, and will be laid in such a manner that the road can be used in various ways. We are not at liberty at present to give the full particulars, but this much we can say, that the passenger and freight cars can be built 17ft wide—that they can be run at the rate of GO miles an hour with double, if not treble, the safety of running over the present road at 40 miles an hour. That a double engine of 60 tons will take 1000 passengers in a single train, with less wear and tear to the roadway than is now caused by a 35 ton engine. The expenses of building such a road will be about 8000 dollars a mile more than building one of the present singletrack roads, which, for 3000 miles, from New York to San Francisco, would involve an extra expense' a-noun'ing to 0n1y2J,000,000 dollars. A single passenger, merchandise, or baggage car, capable of carrying doubfe the number of passengers, and double the quantity of merchandise, will weigh at least five tons less than any two of the cars now in use. The capacity of the road, single track, will be nearly, if not quite, three times ae great as that

of the present single lines. There will be no oscillating movement in the cars when running at a high rate of speed, and it is almost impossible for a car to be overturned in case of an accident. On such a road, with passenger cars seventeen feet wide, they can bo fitted up with state-rooms, &c, and with nearly all the comforts that can be obtained in a first-class hotel. Should the project also be carried out of extending a railroad from New York to the most remote point in Newfoundland, and establish a line of steamers to cross the ocean in three days from that point, which can be done, as the distance is only 1200 miles, the distance from Liverpool to New York can be made in sir days; and adding two and a-half more days to San Francisco, the whole route can be travelled in about nine days, a distance of upwards of 6000 miles. Is not this a wonderful age ?