The peculiar construction of the two-story Bicycle cars, four feet wide, fourteen feet deep, and forty-two feet long, shaped like a plank turned edge-wise, makes them many fold lighter and stronger.
Speed and economy of transportation with reduced cost of construction.
A great saving of expense in grading and land damages.
A greater proportion of paying to non-paying load by the use of narrow two-story deep cars.
A great reduction in cost and wear of rolling stock.
A large saving of friction in rounding curves by the substitution of Bicycle spindles for ordinary car wheel axles, and consequent economy of power in moving trains, and a rate of speed more than double that heretofore obtained on railways, with comfort to passengers, and economy in the conveyance of freight.
Greater safety; as a train grooved between an upper support and lower rail renders any derailment impossible, and the train must run true, smooth and safe.
Spreading of rails by this system will be entirely unknown, the weight being centralized on the rail, both on a curve and a tangent.
A many-fold saving in the consumption of fuel, as the weight of cars drawn would be about one-sixth the weight of the ordinary cars, and the seating capacity double.