The Portland daily press., 1900-02-08
MAKING UP LOST TINE.
How u IL Done Almost Every Day By
an Express Train.

(From The Pittsburs (Penn.) Pest
Starting out Of Youngstown, Ohio,
fifteen minutes late. on the locomotive
which hauls the fast train No. W, tne
careful observer 10 Interested In the WORK
OF the engineer and fireman In their
efforts TO make up the lost time. A 4 90
D. M, railroad time. this train 10 due TO
isave Youngstown, and at 6.so 10 Is due
In the Pitaburs Station. 80 that the
sixty-eieht miles must be covered In one
hour and forty minutes, with two slow
orders and i've stops on the way. Dsdue|
ing ten minutes for the stops nsd slow
orcsrs, aud they amount on the average
10 more than fourteen minutes, We una
that this train must make the run OF
sixty-eight miles In one hour and unity
min utes actual running time. when
fifteen minutes late the run 10 often made
10 one hour and ten minutes, or 81 the
rate Of almost q mile Tor every minute
consumed, and with . parlor car. Two
coaches, and baggage and express cars
this means wonderful running.
Out Of Youngstown the stately iittie
eight.wheeler starts Ut good CLIP, max
Ing thirty i've miles an hour through the
crowded yards. The fireman 10 at work,
and Iuninous, comst-like gieam 10 cast
back from the open furnace door. Inc
engineer 10 on tension. but all alert, ana
to make up rome of the lost time. A.
the Haselton crossing, az usual. long
freight train of the Pittsburg and West.
erp, o. the Pittsbure, youngstown AUG
AshtabuIa IL In the way, and sns req.
wrathful light says step. Two more
inmates lost, and then the tni ostIs ~
pulled open gradually until the entire
machine tsepi bles and vibratss, and the
stack sing Q merry tune ~ the sixty
inch wheels rsvolvs faster and faster:
and the sparks fly up nifty feet and fall
by the wayslde, dying out - they descend
in the cold night air.
Signals Of various kinds loom up but
the engineer knows them all and does
not faiter or hesitate, but on, on flies the
train In the pursuit. OF time. IL 10 1uss
six miles to Lowellville, where the ostsn-
tat.ous borough Councilmen have I'm
provised q slow order, and another minnie
10 lost creeping through that village.
From IoWellVille to New Castle juno
ton Is good running ground, and nine
miles are reeled Oh In nine minutes. AZ
the junction passengers and baggage
must be exchanged, and two more
miuutes are consumed. One minute OF
lost time was CAMEL on tho run from
You ngstovn. and yet the tram must
leave New Castle eleven minutes late.
Now Is the time 10 do something, and
the fireman has the hand Of the gauge
pointing in the right objection. Down
the straight level track to Eo.Avia, over
the Beaver Bridge. and through Wampum
the train makes seventy miles an hour,
and there Is no necessity to reduce speed
n - Rtyap VJnIimtfad
speed 10 the rule, and the throttle 10 wide
open ann the reverse lever hitched Up to
the highspsed notch, while you can al
mt ct feel and hear the steam rushin
into the cylinders and out through the
stack, and whom the furnace door IL
ing around in the fierce artificial draught.
The Beaver Falls cut of Is reached AND
the engineer consults his watch. -Four
aud one- half minutes gained, and the
en- yine stenming well. These arc oopeful
siGns, with more good running ground
ahsau. short stops at Beaver falls,
Brighten, Beaver. and then slowly the
trsin oreeps over the Ohio River bridge
ard starts on q desperate race for Pitts
burg. A mile o minute to Cosraopolis.
and stop there. the last one. and then
begins the Grandest rush OF all. Mile
afte- mile is reeled OF In fifty seconds;
trains on the opposite track are sssed
like q flash, and soon the alimmering
lights Of Allegheny are seen, and the
flying train PUSHES iuto the wilderness
Of cars In the McKee's Rocks yards Win
scarcely any diminution OF speed. The
sls,tric glare of Sehoenville and Mokes's
Rocks fades away, and the myriad lights
Of Pittsburg are In view. In q few
minutes the train IL pulling into the nsw
train shed. and stops just Is the brake
man calls out Pittsburg. The engineer
looks at his watch again. and there Is a
smiis Of satisfaction on his weather.
stained face. II 10 just $40 railroad time.
40 city time, ana the Iuu OF sixty-s Sht
miles has been maize In / 20, or In LILO,
all stops deducted.
This wonderful performance IL repeated
lar trains, and that. too, with . frei yht
traffic moving which amounts to over
81 900 90 annually,