, 1891-12-31
SOME FAST TIME.
The New York centraI's Brag
About a Recent Performance
Where il Was More Than Equalled
on a Western Road.
The Union Pacifc's Fast Mail Quite
a Swift Itself.

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Omaha railroad men recently received
a pamphlet gotten out by the New York
Central to exploit the details of It's fast
run from New York TO Buffalo. The dis
lance is 1864 miles and the actual run.
nlng time, exclusive of three stops, was
425S minutes. This made an average
speed of about sixty-one miles an hour
and beat the world on long distance run
ming.
The record has excited considerable
comment in local railroad circles and the
Union Pacific passenger department has
some figures to show that the West can
compare very l4vorably with the East in
the matter of railroad speed. all things
considered.
Here is what the Union Pacific can do
IN the way of fast running said Mr..
Ben Barrows, the literary man OF that
road. Our train No. A., the fast mail,
left Cheyenne at CAB a. m, arrived at
Sidney at s:4S. left Sidney at 1852, ar
rived at North Platte at HOS. mountain
time, left North Platte at 1910 p. M,
tNhNAh lhAts hlll Gu ut OIduh lNNdnu III
2:33. left Grand Island at 2:3S and ar
rived in Council Bluffs at 5:37 U. n.
The distance was 519 miles and the
time nine hours and fifty. four minutes in.
Guiding fourteen stops. | don't know
lust how much time was consumed by the
stops, but the three at Sidney, North
Platte and Grand Island aggregated four
teen minutes. This corresponds very
closely with the three stops made by the
New York Central. Our train had eleven
other stops. including one of five minutes
iu saving by a freight train. OF course
you understand the time the tram is act
ually at rest does not fairly indicate the
entire loss OF time, because there we're the
delays In slowing up and getting under
full Roadway again. 1t is a reasonable es-
innate to assume that the stops caused an
aggregate addition of fifty-four minutes to
our trains time, which would leave the
running time nine hours. That would
would make the average 5T2 miles for a
distance of $40 miles.
IF one considers the conditions the
record of the Union Pacific will compare
favorably with that of the New York
Central. In the first place our distance
was greater. Then we had only one
track, and that occupied by the usual
number of passenger and freight trains,
while the Central, with its four tracks,
was enabled to nave a clear road with few
hindrances from the regular trafhc.
Again, our run was made In the ordinary
course of affairs. while the Central made
special preparations for its experiment
and presumably had the most favorable
conditions.
But here is another run made by the
Union Pacifc's fast mail. 1t left Grand
Island at 2:57 p. u. and arrived at Coun-
Gil Bluff, at 5:45. The distance was l5G
miles and the gross lime . hours and As
minutes. There were SIX stors. which
reduced the actual running time to very
nearly # not quite > hours and 30
minutes. That made the average speed
OF the train about sixty two miles an
hour for the whole distance. Ia other
words the Union Pacific covered 1856
miles in $50 minutes. The New York
Central made the distance from Albany
TO Syracuse, las miles, in I46i minutes
We think We,ters people rave reason to
be prcnd OF at least one of their rail-
roads.