Continuation Railroad Gauges

The newest thing out in railroad oir cles is a cowbination gauge - or ono tha is to be narrow gauge, broad gaugo anf broador gaugo, all at once. Mr. A. Wil dor, of Pennsylvania, an engineer of or igiiiul views, proposes a narrow-gaug combiuution railroad systein, and luis se cured for it the recognitiou of Congress in a bilí. It contémplate tho laying of two narrow g;uig! trucks, side by siile, with :i spaeo between the inner rails equal to the present cominon. gaugü (four ieet eight inches) thus: 3 foot. 4 ft. 8 in. 3 foet. i 10 feet, 8 inches. As tho reader will perceive, this gives three gauges on one road - two liues of thre fctt, one four fcet eight incluis, and ono ten feet oight inches, all of which Mr. Wildor proposes to use. For small tniffic and cheap work the narrow gauge will be, perhaps, most serviceable, while for high speed and bulky freight ho advocates the broad cars. By mounting them on four whoels, ono for each track, he coutends that the large cars will bcj so free from oscillation that a high rate of speed can be maintuined without danger, whilo passenger comfort will certainly be greatly enhanoed by onlarging tho saloon to a width of 17 foct. ïho inoreaeed siz; of the engines will render them oapable of higher .speed, and Mr. Wilder talks of 100 miles an hour. He bas also very oxtensivo plans for tniiisparting freight in bulk across the Isthmus of Paiviumi, in his big cars, and could easily ship vessolsoföOO or 600 tona burthon from one ocean to the other, uil loadcd.