The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-12-03
FASTEST IN THE WORLD.
The Empire State Express, from
- New York to Buffalo
ACCIDENT MARS THE FIRST TRIP.
Tho Actual Running Time OF the Train,
However. Was $3.50 Miles Per Hour-A
Very Satisfactory Performance Under
Adverse circumstances.

However. Was $3.50 Miles Per Hour-A
Very Satisfactory Performance Under
Adverse circumstances.
BUFFALO, Dec. a-The Eew York Cen
trail railroad yesterday demonstrated its
ability to run upon Its road the fastest
regular train in the world, although 1t
failed in this particular run to finish upon
tho schedule time laid out for It, This
failure was duo entirely to accident, other
portions of the run showing conclusiyely
that the fast scheduled time cnn be ac-
domplished and evon excelled.
Tho record so far is as follows, taking
the record of yesterday up to the time OF
the accident: Actual running time per
hour of new Empire state express, $3.50
mites; old Empire state express, 5l miles;
English road, 5t.75 miles; gain OF Empire
state train over best record, 1.sf miles per
hour.
Up to six months ago the train known
Us the Empire state express had the
worlds record as regular train for fast
running. The London railway, Of Eng
land, running from London to Aberdeen,
began to run trlfie faster than the EN-.
pire states record of 81 miles an hour
Yesterday thu Central began a new sched-
ple for this train which necesstates n run
pf about two miles On hour faster than
the English rival.
Leaving New York at $3.50 n. M, and
with every condition against her, tho
| train made more than thrce-quarters of
the distance in even faster time than the
new schedule calls for. which Is B31f miles
an hour The regular cypress had added
| 10 1t a special car of Vice President Webb,
| Weighing i03, 400 pounds. In addition to
| this extra weight a drizzling rain was fall
Ing, making the tracks extremely slippery.
The run from New York to Albany, 1i2 s8
miles, was made In 3 hours and SO minutes,
| the train reaching that city minutes
ahead of the now schedule time and min
utes ahead of the old schedule.
Engine 900 pulled the train through to
Syracuse, 21z minutes ahead of t.e new
schedule and 10 minutes faster than the
! pld, making total gain of 81 minutes bo-
tween New York and Syracuse. Between
! Syracuse and Rochester the drizzling rain
burned to snow and the wind changed to
| % head wind OF great resistance. Despite
| these conditions, tho train rolled into Ro-
chester exactly on time,
| From Rochester as far as Churchville,
SO miles east OF Buffalo, the stations were
passed exactly upon schedule time. just
after passing Churchvillc, where the en-
gne takes water without stopping the
scoop caught on an obstruction in the
trough and, dropping down, banged
against the ties for at least q mile until
the train could be brought to n staudstiH
When tho train was again started, after q
loss OF IL minutes, 1t was close upon the
long heavy grade running up to Batavia,
and it lost minutes more on this up
grade. When tho Batavia station was
passed the train was 2515 minutes behind
the new schedule.
The run into Buffalo from Batavia, a
ldlstancc of 40 miles, was made in about
lS1 minutes, and the train rolled into
Buffalo % minutes behind the new
schedule time and minutes ahead of the
old schedule. The entire run of 40 miles,
Including three stops and exclusive OF d
delay of 26 minutes, was made in 494 min
llxtta