The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-09-11
Fastest Train The Sat' St.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2S.-lf railroad
speed continues to increase at the pres
ent rate the two-milcs minute steam
engine may be here as quickly as the
mile -in-two- minutes trotting horses.
The recent great runs on the North
western and Great Northern roads from
London to Aberdeen have attracted
the attention of railroad men here, and
it is not unlikely that something will
be done soon to bring the speed record
back to America.
American railroad men no not admit
that the record has ever left here. All
they will admit is that for no miles
an English train has made faster run
than any American train ever did for
the same distance, and one reason why
no American train has ever done it,
thay say,is that there does not hap
pen to be any stretch of track $40 miles
long, except on the Lake Shore road.
The officials Of that road do not be-
licvc in extraordinary fast time, and
Will uOU lltllllIV lldlH' VII eHSii lo"o ~
make record time.
4 reporter talked with General Su-
pcrintcndcnt Van Ettcn. of the New
York Central railroad, today about
the possibility Of fast running.
''Ihc New York Central said Mr..
Van Ettcn, runs the fastest regular
trains in the world, and it is going to
continue to do so. I'm not talking
about the exhibition runs now; I'm
talking about business runs, day in
and day out, the year around.
"Our Empire State express is the
fastest train in the world. The recent
remarkable runs in England arc cx-
hibition runs, although they were
made by regularly scheduled trains.
We have run only one exhibition train
and we made remarkable time with it,
bat we can do great deal better. We
can maintain, with Il regular train, a
speed of miles an hour for any dis
tancc. We may take you on an ex-
hibition trip some day and Il warrant
that we will do great deal better than
they have done
Our machines h"rc-thosc that are
in use every day-arc capable of main
tanning speed of 100 miles all hour.
vt that speed the question with us is
largely matter Of curve angles. To
make it safe travelling 1T that rate
around our curves. We would have to
make such an angle that we could not
pull freight trains around them, but
the engines are here and the speed is
here. The cabcd stories Of this last
remarkable English run say that for Il
part of the distance the speed was -
miles an hour.
The Empire State express has run
at the rate OF II > miles an hour.
Several times it has made 100 and lU2
miles an hour. On one occasion the
Empire State was 10 minutes late at
Syracuse. She had been delayed be-
tween .Albany and there. In the run
from Syracuse to Buffalo this time was
made up. and she ran into the Buffalo
depot on the minute. This included
Il ivc-minulc stop at Rochester. The
distance between Syracuse and Buffalo
is 202 miles The schedule time for
the rl,m is 22l minutes. ncducting
the ~ minutes on this OCCASION. the
running time. including tn" stop, was
Isl minutes. That is at the rate Of
G1 Gti miles an hour Allowing for the
stop the actual running time was l16
minutes. or at the rate of G9 miles an
F! hour for the Who'll" 2o2 miles. This is
Stree mil. ~ l;onr faster than tho