THE MONORAIL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 62, 10 September 1910, Page 15

THE MONORAIL.

APPLICATION IN ALASKA. It appears that the first practical application of the Brennan gyroscope monorail car is to be made in Alaska, where a system of monorail roads will be built connecting several camps, says the Scientific American. Exclusive rights' to use this car in Alaska have been granted to an American syndicate, represented by J. E. Balleine, of Seattle, Washington State, and a firm of ICew York bankers. The syndicate has agreed to build one hundred miles of railways within one year following the completion of two cars, an order for the construction of which has been given to Mr. Louis Brennan in London. Mr. Balleine is quoted in reports as follows: — "I estimato that the cost of the 100 miles of lino we are going to build from the Matamiska coal fields towards Fairbanks will not exceed 3000dol a mile, compared with at least 20,000d0l for even the lightest double rail track. The objectors to the Brennan, or any monorail, system calculate that no single rail can be laid which will long stand the weight of the rolling stock, and that even the heaviest double track can hardly do more than stand the present running loadg ;' also that the laymg down of one rail is practically just as costly as laying down a double track, the earthwork, etc.. being the real expense, the cost of the extra rail being not worth consideration."