The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-11-13
FAST TINE On THE RAIL.
very Rapid Run From Chicago to
Buffalo.
penn rL,abIe. Record Made on the
Lake shore and Michigan
southern.

RT-FFALO, Oct. 24.-The record for
railroad speed over a great distance
was broken today by a special train on
the Lake Shore and Michigan South
srn Railroad, which ran from One
Hupdredth street, Chicago, to Buffalo
Greek, Buffalo, Sol miles, in 4Sl
minutes and seconds, at an average
speed of So miles an hour. This
time includes stops. Exclusive of
stOps, the run was made in 40 min
utes and 10 seconds, an average speed
of 4.g3 miles per hour.
The New York CentraPs record of
September 18th was an average Of
1851 miles an hour, including stops,
and 1926 miles an hour exclusive of
delay.
The train left Chicago this morning
at 3:29:27 \. M. Central time) and ar
rived at Buffalo Creek at 1I:3O:34.
Four minutes later the train came to
a stop in the Central station at Buffalo.
The train was made up of three
coaches, engine and tender. The
coaches were two Wagner drawing
room cars and DR.. Seward Webb's
DTivate car Ell-mere, the com Olned
weight Of which is 3O4, 800 pounds.
The weight Of the engines and tender
was IS4 600 pounds, making the total
weight of the train 4SS,5OO pounds.
Different engines were used on each
of the divisions, and the run for the
divisions were: Chicago TO EIkhart,
S74 miles in So min. % sec. Elkhart
~ 4 "a ~
sec. Toledo to Cleveland, 1913 miles
in 1916 min. 6 sec. ; Cleveland TO Erie,
95.5 miles in So min. 30 Sec; Erie TO
Buffalo, SIS miles in 20 min. is sec.
Between Chicago and Elkhart the
train was obliged to slow down for
railroad crossings eight times and to
SCOOP up water once.
At EIkhart two minutes and eleven
seconds were lost in changing engines.
Engine 500, David LuceDger, pulled
the train 10 Toledo, and OH this run
eight slow downs were made for cross
ings and water At Toledo two min
utes and thirty-eight seconds were lost
changing engines.
On this division the most trouble
was experienced. Besides the newt
able stops for dTawbrIdges and rail-
road crossings, one dead stop was
made for red flag, where the actual
time standing still without computing
the loss in slowing down from speed
Of seventy two miles an hour and get
ting up speed again, was two minutes
and five seconds
At Cleveland l minute and ID Sc
eOnds were consumed in changing en-
gines to 59S. which, pilOted by Jacob
Gamer, drew the train to- Erie at the
fastest average speed yet attained.
But the greatest record was made on
the last trip from Erie to Buffalo,
where the big ten wheeler, No. 564,
William Turkey engineer, picked up
the train and pulled 1t into Buffalo at
An average speed of seventy miles an
hour.
The East coast record on the Great
Northern Road of England from
Kings Cross to Aberdeen is 523 miles
in 5I2 minutes, or 60.3 miles per hour.
The west coast record on the London
and Northwestern is $40 miles in 5l2
minutes, or $500 miles per hour. The
run from Chicago to Buffalo was made
for a practical object. 1t was neither
to beat the record of the English roads
nor to show how absolute speed could
be obtained on the roadbed, but to
ascertain at what rate commercially
paying train could be made to go
safely.
CHICAGO, Oct. "a The fastest
regular train ever run in the world,
taking distance into consideration,
will begin it's daily trips over the
Santa Fe road next Tuesday 1t will
leave Chicago at p. M. ami reach
Los Angeles on Friday at p. M,
making the run of 2265 miles in sew
enty-fOur hours, allowing for the
difference in time.
NEW YORK, Oct. 24.-The train
which broke the record from Chicago
to Albany was sent on to New York
city over the New York Central and
made a new record between New York
and Chicago. The train arrived here
at lO:15 o'clock last night. The en-
tire distance of $50 miles was made IN
II hours 40 minutes aud % seconds.
Chicago newspaper men who were on
board had in their pockets morning
papers of Thursday. This Is the first
time that n regular edition of Chi
eagO morning paper has been received
in New York the day of its publica-
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