The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-25
METEoRIC SWlFTNESS.
NEW YORK CENTRAL TRAIN Av-
ERAGEs Go MILES AN HOUR.
Freaks All Previous Train Records
Ever Made in the World For an
Equal Distance.

CLEVELAND, o.. Oct. 24.-The
worlds record breaker on the Lake
Shore railway passed through Cleve-
land at $50 d. m today, en- route from
Chicago to New York. 1t consisted OF
a locomotive and three Wagner VeStl-
buled cars IT he party consisted OF DR..
H. Walter Webb, third vice president
of the New York Central, who on Sep
tember II lowered the worlds record
on that line; his secretary, Mr.. Leon
ard the official time keeper of the rum
General superintendent w. II. Conif.
of the Lake Shore; A. ]. Smith, general
passenger agent; e. Handy, chief engi-
neer: Assistant General superintendent
Blodgett; S. P. Gage. chief clerk to the
general superintendent, and T. b
Cook. chief clerk of Mr.. Blodgett.
The train left the Lake Shore station
at Chicago promptly at $3.50 o'clock,
pulled by a mogul engine. Every ar
rangement had been made to expedite
the run The switches were spiked and
all trains sidetracked for the flyer.
Cleveland in $50 Minutes.
Across the Illinois prairies, through
Michigan farms and along the smooth
stretches bordering the edges OF Lake
Erie the flyer sped like meteor
through the night. Brief stops to IGss We're re
made at Hillsdale and Toledo TO
change engines. and Cleveland was
reached at S:5O15, or 800 minutes out Of
| Chicago. The distance from Chicago
to Cleveland by the Lake Shore is 3ol
miles. so the entire trip, including
stops, was made at the rate of mile
in 521a seconds. The engines were
/ changed at Collingwood in about TWEEN
ty-nine seconds. and the train rushed
! on again.
BUFFALO. Oct 24-The worlds rec
/ ord for railroad speed over a great dis
! lance was broken today by the special
| train on the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern railroad, which ran from one
! Hundredth street. Chicago to Buffalo
| Creek Buffalo, 510.1 miles, in AL MIN
! utes Z seconds, an average speed OF
| CSC miles an hour. This time lncludeS
! stops. Exclusive of stops the run was
made in 40 minutes 10 seconds. an av-
erage speed of 64.9S miles per hour. The
/ New York CentraTs record of Septem-
| Der II was an average speed OF 1851
miles an hour, insluding stops, and 64.26
miles per hour exclusive of stops
The Rusher.
The train was made up Of three
/ coaches, engine and tender. The coach
es were two Wagner drawing room
cars and DR.. Seward Webbs private
| car Ells1nere, the combined weight OF
which is 304, 900 pounds The weight
of the engine and tender was $4,000
pounds. making the total weight OF the
! train 4S8,000 pounds.
Different engines were used on each
of the divisions and the run for the
| divisions were:
Chicago to Elkhart, S7.4 miles. in 50
minutes 26 seconds; Elkhart to Toledo,
| 1881 miles, in 1874 minutes 80 seconds;
/ Toledo to Cleveland, 1913 miles, in 1O6
minutes 6 seconds; Cleveland to Erie,
95.6 miles, in 50 minutes 81 seconds;
Erie to Buffalo, SIS miles, in 70 minutes
! and 16 seconds.
Between Chicago and Elkhart the
train was obliged to slow up for rail-
road crossings eight times and to scoop
up water once.
At Elkhart two minutes and eleven
seconds were lost in changing engines.
Engine $685. David Luce engineer,
pulled the train to Toledo and on this
run eight slow downs were made for
crossings and water. At Toledo two
minutes and thfrty-eight seconds were
lost in changing engines.
On this division the most trouble was
experienced. Besides the inevitable
. SlOpS lOI QIdW DiluSeS anu ram Ociu
crossings, one dead stop was made for
a red flag, where the actual time stand
ing still. without computing the loss
in slowing down from a speed of 70
miles an hour and of getting up speed
again, was two minutes and five sec
onds. At Cleveland one minute and
forty-five seconds were consumed in
changing engines. No. 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 lap from Erie to
Buffalo, where the big wheeler,
, No. 564, William Turnkey, engineer,
, picked up the train and pulled her into
, Buffalo at an average speed of 70 miles
an hour
The great coast record on the Great
Northern road of England from Kings
: Cross to Aberdeen. is 523 miles in 81:
minutes, or 603 miles an hour. The
west coast record on the London &
Northwestern is $40 miles in 512 min
| utes. or $3.50 miles per hour The rur
from Chicago to Buffalo was made fol
! a practical object. 1t was neither tc
beat the record of the British roads mol
: to show what absolute speed could be
obtained on the road bed but to ascer
5 tain at what rate a commercially pay.
ing train could be made to go safely.
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