The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-06-16
ONE HUNDRED FEET A SECOND.
A Train to New York that Travelled
Seventy-iive Miles an Hour.
Philadelphia Record.]

The passengers on the limited express
train from Washington to New York
over the Pennsylvania line, rode at a
speed recently which few of them real
lied until they found themselves safe,
dust. and on time in the Jersey
City depot. The train from Washing
ton was fifteen minutes behind time in
Preaching the West Philadelphia depot,
where the big new locomotive, adoring-
I ly named by the railroaders Long
legged Ten," was snorting under an
enormous steampressure. The Wash
inqton section was soon added to the
other cars, and string Of seven cars
started out of the depot on gentle
roll. As the last car swung around the
Geological Garden the speed had in
creased to twenty miles an hour, and as
the wheels turned to cross the northern
end Of the city the mile-posts COM
menced TO pass at the rate OF one in two
minutes When Frankford was reached
the trees and fence posts seemed to skip
back with increased speed, and the
register showed forty-hve miles an hour
Then the engineer, patting his pet on
the throttle, let loose his hold and the
big thing started out to make up for
lost time. Schenck s Station was passed
at the rate of sixty-five miles an hour
but so easy was the riding that none Of
the four hundred passengers knew that
they were shooting over the ground at
the pace of more than one hundred feet
second. As Bristol was sighted the
train slowed up with a series of jerks,
and passed the station at what seemed
to the passengers to be very lazy
swing, but which was, in fact, speed
of forty. FIVE miles an hour. For few
minutes there was no perceptible change
in the rate, except, perhaps, that a
gentle pull showed the locomotive was
improving its time. Tullytown whizzed
past at a sixty-mile pace. All this time
the travelling was up grade. As Tren-
ton was sighted the mile-posts came
along in fifty-seven seconds; the bridge
over the Delaware river was crossed,
and Trenton was entered at the rate of
forty miles an hour. Four OF the lost
fifteen minutes had been gained on the
stretch from Philadelphia, and after a
stop of two and half minutes to take
in passengers the big thing moved off
again across the country. 1t was now
difficult task to pass from a mile post
TO post in less than eighty seconds.
After the third mile had been reached
the time between posts fell to seventy
seconds. Lawrence was passed at n
sixty mile gait, and Princeton Junction
followed at the same pace, Then the
speed increased to sixty-five miles an
hour, until Monmouth junction was
reached Here the engine was slowed
down to afty-five miles while taking up
water from track tank then twelve
miles were gone over in twelve minutes.
Down grades now helped to accelerate
the impetus of the huge mass, and the
mile. posts, before reaching New Bruins
wick, flew by in fifty. five seconds. At
New Brunswick quite crowd was
gathered at the depot to see the monster
engine whizz through the city at the
rate of forty miles an hour. Menlo
Park danced by with sunlight flash
from the row of glass globes covering
the electric lamps that line the track,
and within the next five minutes the
speed of the train increased ON a
straightway dance to seventy miles an
hour. Railway, Newark and the Mead
ows were SKINNED over, and the i'm
mense train dashed into the depot on
time, having covered eighty nine miles
In niRety-fye minutes.