The record-union., 1892-08-13

- viz tAesSh III SOlIIS p1StCtS 1OI LILIES.
! At points on the road where the view is
particularly fine track has been built
| outside the sheds for summer use, SO that
| tourists during that season may not lose
| the grandeur OF the scenery while passing
through these long cedar tunnels. The
| canadian Pacific was commenced in
| May, 1881, and traverses the southern por-
ton of Canada, connecting Montreal on
the 81. Lawrence with Vancouver on the
| Pacific, the distance between the two
points named being 1906 miles.
The highest point of railway in the
| United States is on the Denver and Rio
| Grande Railway. At Marshall Pass this
road attains an elevation of 10, $50 feet.
! Inc longest journey taken by any Eu-
ropean train is from Paris to Constanti-
| nople, 1857 miles. This train is run on
| American principles, and is organized by
! the international Sleeping Car Company.
The extra fare charged on this train is
nearly twenty-five per cent. above the
/ regular irst-claSs rate The service
! however, is splendid. The train travels
SIX Countries France, Germany, Aus
| trla hungary, SerVia, Bulgaria and Tur-
! key. The food served in the dining-cars
| is procured in the various countries
! through which the train passes, and trav-
| eIerS who have used this route generally
| have a lively recollection Of the Rouman-
ian chickens served to them at Bucharest
! Should the Bosphorus at any time be
| Drldged "a scheme is now under way to
! do it, the completion of the railway in
! Asia Minor will give continuous line of
rail from Paris to Bagdad, on the Persian
! Gulf
The two countries having the smallest
number Of miles Of railway are Persia
and Porto Rico-each have but eighteen
miles. In the former country there are
| only two locomotives and four cars
The smallest railway in the world
! is that from Ravenglass to Boot, in Cum
| berland. The gauge is three feet, and
! the engines and carriages are miniatures.
| The stations resemble double bathing
! houses more than anything else The
| entire staff of employees is composed of
an engineer and stoker combined, guard,
ticket collector, ticket distributor and
| two pOrters.
The shortest steam railway in the world
/ is at Buffalo, n. y, and is known as the
Island Railroad, and is but one-eighth Of
/ a mile in length
OF all the railway trains in the world
| none present for the convenience and ac-
commodation of passengers so many feat
ures as do those of the United States.
| The 'limitedS'' offer UNIQUE features in
railway history. All the conveniences of
frst-class hotel-drawing-r and
! dInIng-room, sleeping-car and smoker,
| reading apartments and barber'S saloon
/ are part OF the accommodations of the YES
! Thule train. Owners of private cars seem
to vie with each other in the magnifi-
! cence OF their coaches. The imperial
/ train which has just been completed for
| the German Emperor consists OF eleven
| carriages, and has occupied three years
! IN construction, and cost nearly $685., 600.
! There is nothing like it in the world
! Many OF the details were planned by the
! Emperor himself. The carriages include
| study hung with real Gobelin tapestry
co nh
| stored IN White satin, a nursery, q recep-
! tiOn-rOom adorned with marble statuary,
an oak dlning-rOOm and large, separate
sleeping-rooms.
Queen Nictoria's travelling carriage is
one of the handsOmest Pullman cars that
has ever been built. The walls are of
satinwood, highly polished. The cush-
ions are OF White silk embroidered in gold
thread. The apartment contains four
/! easy chairs, besides a satinwood table
| about six feet long and three feet wide.
The carpet is of velvet pile, covered here
and. there with luxurious India rugs.
The curtains at the windows and the
magnificent portieres are hung on silver
poles The door-handles are solid silver.
The whole saloon, with its fittings, ETC.,
cost about $4,000.
SOME OF THE FASTEST RUNS.
The fastest time ever made on an Amer
lean railway was recently done on the
Reading road, when a locomotive draw
ing four passenger coaches covered
mile in 394 seconds, which speed, if main
tanned, would come very near to 100 miles
an hour. Previous to this performance
| the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago
road held the record in the running OF a
special. According to the official report
this train ran hfty-three miles in FORTY
i've minutes, eleven miles of which were
covered IN seven minutes, or at an aver
Gnp11 of
The fastest long distance run that was
ever made in England was the famous
performance on the London and North
western between London and Edinburg,
400 miles, August l3, 1888. Three stops
were made, the average speed attained
While IN motion being 55 40 miles an
hour. -Four successive miles were done
in Az, All, AZ and Al seconds. The Empire
State Express, which runs daily over the
New York Central road, is the fastest
regular train in the world. The distance
run IS 4393 miles, the stops being Albany.
Utica, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo.
The actual running time, deducting
stops, is 52A miles an hour. On Septem,
Der IA, 1891, the New York Central Com
pany ran a train from New York to East
Buffalo, 1864 miles, in 1851 minutes. or
within fraction Of 81 miles an hour.
The two cities having the largest num-
Der OF trains III ana out of their stations
fewer than 2,2lO trains ordinarily arrive
at and depart from the former city every
tWenty-tour hours, and nearly as MANY
at the latter.
One Of the longest railway platforms in
the world IS at the Liverpool Street Sta
ton, London, of the Great Eastern Rail-
way. 1t is 1900 feet in length.
The railways of the United States get
almost 100000 year for carrying the
mails, while the amount by the British
government for the same service in Eng
and is $3,750,000.
ENORMOUS TRAFFIC OF THE UNITED
STATES.
In the United States during 1891 no
fewer than $40, 439, 0S2 passengers were
carried on the railways, and 7OI 344. 437
tons OF freight were also moved on the
same linesS To do this vast amount Of
business required 32,24I locomotives. D.
95S passenger cars, ,253 baggage and mail
cars, and ,06l,970 freight cars. If these
locomotives were coupled together they
would make traln 800 miles long, and
the passenger cars would make 300 miles
more, and could carry 100000 people at
one time. With the addition OF all the
freight cars the train would be more than
1000 miles long.
The number of men employed in the
railway industry in this country is ia
100, by which it would appear that over
100000 persons, or nearly one-twentieth
of the entire population, are dependent
upon railway operations for a livelihood,
The New York Elevated carries every
year larger number of passengers than
anV other railway in tho yyorld M,